Contributors to the volume -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Research base for practice -- Developing Chinese oral skills - A research base for practice -- Asymmetric style of communication in Mandarin Chinese talk-in-interaction -- Learning tones cooperatively in the CSL classroom: A proposal -- Chapter 2: Integrating culture and language -- Integrating culture and language in the Chinese as a foreign language classroom: A view from the bottom up -- Analysis of pragmatic functions of Chinese cultural markers -- Gestures as tone markers in multilingual communication -- The collaborative construction of culture knowledge in a Chinese movie class -- Chapter 3: Acquisition of language structures -- The acquisition of Chinese modal auxiliary Neng Verb Group (NVG): A case study of an English L2 learner of Chinese -- Acquisition of Chinese relative clauses at the initial stage -- Conceptual similarities in languages - Evidence from English "be going to" and its Chinese counterparts -- SLA of Mandarin nominal syntax: Emergence order in the early stages -- Index.