This is a collection of papers carefully selected from the Second International Symposium of Chinese Interlanguage Corpus: Construction and Application, including 33 papers in total. Its discussion focuses on Chinese interlanguage corpus and related issues, such as research on the construction of Chinese interlanguage corpora, corpus-based research on the acquisition of Chinese sentence patterns and syntax, corpus-based research on the acquisition of Chinese characters and words, and so on. The book also includes speeches made by experts such as Cui Xiliang, Lu Jianming and Feng Zhiwei. It is of great inspiring and guiding value for the recognition of the current situation, difficulty and significance of interlanguage corpus construction, for the actual construction of interlanguage corpora of spoken language and dynamic composition, for the error analysis of international students’ work, and for the research on language acquisition, etc.

Cui Xiliang, Doctor of Arts, President of Beijing Language and Cultural University, is a professor of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, a tutor of Ph.D. candidates, an executive member of Chinese Language Society, the vice-chairman of The International Society for Chinese Language Teaching, and the chairman of Beijing Language Society. Mr. Cui has been awarded among Elite Young Teachers of Universities in Beijing and been acknowledged as a trans-century talent by China’s Ministry of Education. Zhang Baolin is a researcher in the HSK Center of Beijing Language and Culture University Press and a tutor of postgraduates, whose research focuses on modern Chinese grammar, teaching of Chinese as a foreign language, Chinese language testing, corpus construction, and acquisition of Chinese sentence patterns. Mr. Zhang has undertaken, hosted or been a major member of more than 10 projects, including national-level projects and projects sponsored by the Beijing City, the Ministry of Educati