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Chinese: Language and Culture: Language

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Finding Language Learning Materials in the Library Catalog

The MERLIN catalog lists a wealth of language learning materials. A general subject search for "Chinese Language" will retrieve hundreds of books. To see what is available in electronic format, click on Limit, and choose Ebook as the Material Type.
Add the following sub-headings after Chinese Language to get more specific results:

  • Composition and Exercises
  • Conversation and Phrase Books
  • Dictionaries
  • Errors of Usage
  • Examinations
  • Idioms
  • Readers
  • Study and Teaching
  • Terms and Phrases
  • Textbooks
  • Usage
  • Vocabulary 

Google Language Tools

Research on Language & Language Teaching

The following databases list research on linguistics and language pedagogy. See also the MERLIN catalog, using the broad subject heading "German Language", or the more specific "German Language Study and Teaching".