About the Author

Janet Zhiqun Xing is an associate professor of Chinese and linguistics at Western Washington University. She specializes in discourse analysis, historical linguistics, and teaching Chinese as a second language.

Reviews

Xing builds upon an impressively broad base of research in language acquisition and pedagogy, as well as some of the most important Chinese linguistic studies. From the dual perspectives of a learner and teacher of Chinese, it is a book that is of great use to both types of audiences. -- Scott McGinnis, Defense Language Institute, Washington Office