Teacher Voices in Chinese Language Teaching: Personal Reflections on Culture (1st ed. 2022) (Palgrave Studies in Teaching and Learning Chinese)

Synopsis

This book reports the results of an ethnographic study, focusing primarily on the experiences of four teachers of the Chinese language in Australian secondary schools. The author creates an audience for their voices as they reflect on their own understandings of culture, language teaching, and culture in language teaching through semi-structured interviews, and compares these reflections with written stimulus dialogues designed to elicit 'culture-in-language' reflections, as well as curriculum and policy documents produced by the Australian government. The book's findings indicate that teachers of the Chinese language are diverse in their views on culture, language teaching, and the ways in which culture can or should inform language teaching, and the author argues that language teacher intercultural competence cannot be assessed through a synthesis of the current English-only research literature. This book will be of interest to teachers and teacher trainers of Chinese as a foreign language, as well as students and scholars of applied linguistics and language education more broadly.

Copyright:

2022

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9783030892135

Related ISBNs:

9783030892128

Publisher:

Springer International Publishing

Date of Addition:

02/24/23

Copyrighted By:

The Author

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

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No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Education, Language Arts, Communication, Foreign Language Study

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