ABSTRACT
As a first language (L1), Chinese has more than one billion speakers in Mainland China alone, plus the native speaking populations in countries such as Taiwan and Singapore. Accompanying the growth of second language (L2) Chinese learners is the emergence of studies on the acquisition of Chinese as a second language. Acquisition of Word Order in Chinese as a Foreign Language summarizes Wenying Jiang's principle-based taxonomy of Chinese L2 word order errors developed by categorizing such errors according to the violation of a relevant word order principle, sub-principle, or sub-principle type guided by a cognitive functionalist theoretical framework. The principle based taxonomy of L2 Chinese word order errors is a significant achievement, as it provides a means to adequately describe and clearly explain L2 Chinese word order errors. Tan's MA thesis focused on L2 Chinese word order errors collected from native English speaking primary school students in Singapore.
