Teaching Chinese Language in the International School Context

2024-01-11
Teaching Chinese Language in the International School Context

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  • Author: Jia-Fei Hong
  • Publisher: Springer Nature
  • ISBN: 9819963761
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 218

This book explores the learning and teaching of K-12 Chinese language in international schools. The authors of this book are scholars from teaching training institutions and universities, as well as professional frontline teachers. With a combination of the works and insights from both perspectives of theory and practice, the book presents how theories of teaching can be operated in classroom to improve the effectiveness of language teaching. It covers curriculum setting, design of teaching materials, teaching principles, methods, strategies, and evaluation. The book also discusses issues and concepts such as concept-driven learning, identity change and recognition of L1 and L2 Chinese teacher, pinyin teaching, Chinese character teaching, evaluation for learning improvement, and integration of South Asian non-Chinese speaking students into local schools. It emphasizes empirical action research methods. This is a highly informative and carefully presented book, providing high value insights to scholars from university and teacher training institutions and teachers from kindergartens, primary, and secondary schools around the world.

Supporting the Learning of Chinese as a Second Language: Implications for Language Education Policy

Supporting the Learning of Chinese as a Second Language: Implications for Language Education Policy

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  • Author: Joseph Lo Bianco
  • Publisher: Springer Nature
  • ISBN: 3031661354
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 440

Infusing IB Philosophy and Pedagogy into Chinese Language Teaching

2015-10-30
Infusing IB Philosophy and Pedagogy into Chinese Language Teaching

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  • Author: Mark S. K. Shum
  • Publisher: John Catt
  • ISBN: 1398382930
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 152

This book not only examines what IB philosophy is, it also explores the relationship between IB philosophy and Chinese language and culture and introduces a lot of useful and creative teaching pedagogies and methodologies. Most importantly, this book fills the gap of implementing IB philosophy and pedagogy into Chinese language teaching.

Speech Perception, Production and Acquisition

2020-09-14
Speech Perception, Production and Acquisition

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  • Author: Huei‐Mei Liu
  • Publisher: Springer Nature
  • ISBN: 9811576068
  • Category : Foreign Language Study
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 277

This book addresses important issues of speech processing and language learning in Chinese. It highlights perception and production of speech in healthy and clinical populations and in children and adults. This book provides diverse perspectives and reviews of cutting-edge research in past decades on how Chinese speech is processed and learned. Along with each chapter, future research directions have been discussed. With these unique features and the broad coverage of topics, this book appeals to not only scholars and students who study speech perception in preverbal infants and in children and adults learning Chinese, but also to teachers with interests in pedagogical applications in teaching Chinese as Second Language.

Teaching and Learning Chinese as a Foreign or Second Language: The Educational Psychology Perspective

2024-02-21
Teaching and Learning Chinese as a Foreign or Second Language: The Educational Psychology Perspective

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  • Author: Yang Frank Gong
  • Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
  • ISBN: 2832545084
  • Category : Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 318

Over the past two decades, Chinese as a foreign or second language (CFL/CSL) has been increasingly taught and learnt as an important language both within and outside China. Studies in the field have attempted to address deep-seated tensions between existing educational ideologies, concepts, strategies, and approaches and student learning process and performance, and between existent teaching methods and techniques and the globalization of Chinese language education.

Exploring Innovative Pedagogy in the Teaching and Learning of Chinese as a Foreign Language

2015-11-07
Exploring Innovative Pedagogy in the Teaching and Learning of Chinese as a Foreign Language

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  • Author: Robyn Moloney
  • Publisher: Springer
  • ISBN: 981287772X
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 274

Teachers of Chinese as a foreign language in many international contexts are searching for pedagogic solutions to promote effective learning. Models of innovative and successful approaches are urgently needed. This volume presents a collection of compelling and empirically rich research studies that showcases innovative developments in the practice of teaching Chinese as a foreign language. The studies focus on three interrelated areas: learners, teachers, and applications of new technologies. Specifically, the studies explore methods for fostering learner-centred classrooms, autonomous learners, intercultural learning, the role of teacher views and identities, the nature of a ‘middle ground’ approach, and technologies that accommodate the unique aspects of the Chinese language, with new options for mobile and interactive learners. Providing both inspiration and practical models for language practitioners and researchers, it offers a vital resource for teachers’ professional development, and for pre-service teacher education.

Learning and Teaching Chinese as a First Language

2024-06-28
Learning and Teaching Chinese as a First Language

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  • Author: Sin Manw Sophia Lam
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • ISBN: 1040090036
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 237

In this book, the authors embark on a critical investigation of the complex field of Chinese language education, with a particular focus on exploring new trends and teaching and learning. They delve into the intricacies of language, education and its effectiveness in teaching Chinese as a first language. The book has three objectives: establishing a field of study in Chinese language learning and teaching, providing critical discussion and progressive insights on language education, and offering relevant pedagogical perspectives of learning and teaching Chinese as L1 and L2. The chapters investigate learning and teaching of Chinese in different aspects, including four skills, culture, literature, technology-assisted learning, and learners’ identity. By focusing on the teaching practices of Chinese at different levels, it sheds light on teaching Chinese as a first language. Theoretically, it broadens the linguistic and geographical reach of previous works on language education that mainly examine English as a lingua franca or children’s first language acquisition. Drawing upon theories in language learning, the book demonstrates the applicability of language theories in the first language and Chinese as a non-alphabetic language and examines the impact and effectiveness of some theories in Chinese learning and teaching. Academic researchers, teacher educators, teachers and students interested in Chinese language and education will find this a highly relevant text for its focus on curriculum, pedagogy and assessment of teaching Chinese as a first language.

The Palgrave Handbook of Chinese Language Studies

2022-07-30
The Palgrave Handbook of Chinese Language Studies

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  • Author: Zhengdao Ye
  • Publisher: Springer Nature
  • ISBN: 9811609241
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 1032

This new major reference work provides a comprehensive overview of linguistic phenomena in a variety of Sinitic languages in a global context, highlighting the dynamic interaction between these languages and English. This “living reference work” offers a window into the linguistic sphere in China and beyond, and showcases the latest research into diverse and evolving linguistic phenomena that have resulted from intensified interactions between the Sinophone world and other lingua-spheres. The Handbook is divided into five sections. The chapters in Section I (New Research Trends in Chinese Linguistic Research) present fast-growing research areas in Chinese linguistics, particularly those undertaken by scholars based in China. Section II (Interactions of Sinitic Languages) focuses on language-contact situations inside and outside China. The chapters in Section III (Meaning, Culture, Translation) explore the meanings of key cultural concepts, and how ideas move between Chinese and English through translation across various genres. Section IV (New Trends in Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language) covers new ideas and practices relating to teaching the Chinese language and culture. The final section, Section V (Transference from Chinese to English), explores dynamic interactions between varieties of Chinese and varieties of English, as they play out in multilingual sites and settings

Routledge International Handbook of Schools and Schooling in Asia

2018-05-11
Routledge International Handbook of Schools and Schooling in Asia

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  • Author: Kerry J. Kennedy
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1317439422
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 1085

This comprehensive handbook is the ultimate reference work, providing authoritative and international overviews of all aspects of schools and schooling in Asia. Split into 19 sections it covers curriculum, learning and assessment, private supplementary tutoring, special education, gender issues, ethnic minority education and LGBTQI students in Asian schools. The volume displays the current state of the scholarship for schools and schooling in Asia including emerging, controversial and cutting-edge contributions using a thematic approach. The content offers a broad sweep of the region with a focus on theoretical, cultural and political issues as well as identifying educational issues and priorities, such as curriculum, assessment, teacher education, school leadership, etc., all of which impact students and learning in multiple ways. The Routledge International Handbook of Schools and Schooling in Asia brings together experts in each area to contribute their knowledge, providing a multidimensional and rich view of the issues confronting the region’s school and education systems. Chapters 34, 35, 36, 37, and 38 of this book are freely available as downloadable Open Access PDFs at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Teaching Chinese as a Second Language

2019-01-21
Teaching Chinese as a Second Language

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  • Author: Jane Orton
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1351206850
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 197

Grounded in analysis of Chinese and international educational concepts and classroom techniques currently used to teach Chinese as a Second Language, and a thorough review of recent research in the field, this volume identifies the learning challenges of the language for native English speakers. Orton and Scrimgeour assess the gap in knowledge and skills between learners’ initial and future proficiency levels as L2 Chinese speakers, map their needs as learners towards achieving a high language proficiency, and set out an informed, integrated teaching orientation and practice for the Chinese classroom that responds to those needs. Chapters in the volume address curriculum design, teaching diverse learners and levels, the learning challenges of Chinese oral and literacy skills, grammar and vocabulary, discourse development, cultural understanding, and the affordances of a visit to China. Filled with original and engaging teaching and learning tools and techniques, this book is an essential and rich content resource for primary and secondary teachers, and teacher candidates and educators in Chinese as a Second Language education.