TABLE OF CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I -- ACQUIRING THE PERFECTIVE ASPECT MARKERLE IN DIFFERENT LEARNING CONTEXTS -- THE EFFECT OF METALINGUISTIC PROMPTSON THE ACQUISITION OF CHINESEWH-QUESTIONS -- THE SECOND-LANGUAGE ACQUISITIONOF ASPECT IN CHINESE BEI-CONSTRUCTIONS -- COMPARISON BETWEEN ADVANCED-LEVELCHINESE HERITAGE AND NON-HERITAGELEARNERS' NARRATIVE WRITING -- ANXIETY IN LEARNING CHINESEAS A HERITAGE LANGUAGEAND THE INFLUENCE OF BACKGROUNDVARIABLES -- FOCUSED DICTOGLOSS,PEER COLLABORATION,AND GUIDED RECONSTRUCTION -- THE SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITIONOF CHINESE BARE NOUNSBY ENGLISH SPEAKERS -- PART II -- TRAINING NAÏVE LEARNERSTO IDENTIFY CHINESE TONE -- THE ROLES OF CHARACTER PROPERTIESIN EARLY LEARNING TO READ CHINESEAS A SECOND LANGUAGE -- CFL LEARNERS' STRATEGIES USEDTO INTERPRET NEW COMPOUND WORDSIN SENTENCE READING -- THE EFFECT OF SEMANTIC RELATIONAND L2 PROFICIENCY ON COMPREHENSIONOF CHINESE NOUN-NOUN COMPOUNDS -- RESEARCH ON ACQUISITION DIFFICULTYOF RELATIVE CLAUSES IN CHINESEAS A SECOND LANGUAGE -- EXPRESSING CAUSED MOTION EVENTSIN L2 CHINESE -- EDITOR AND CONTRIBUTORS.