Discusses recent changes in Chinese as a second/foreign language (CSL/FL) teaching and research, examining the diversification of contexts for CSL/FL learning in terms of learners needs, and advances in language learning research over the past 25 years that can provide a basis for informing teachers' choices in the classroom. (Author/VWL)

This paper presents the results of a parallel classroom experiment investigating the effects of processing instruction, traditional instruction and meaning-based output instruction on the acquisition of the English past simple tense. The subjects involved in the present studies were Chinese and Greek school-age learners of English residing in…