Localising Chinese
Educating Teachers through Service-Learning
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Beschreibung
This book presents innovative strategies for teaching the Chinese language to English-speaking students around the world, using in-depth research arising from a long-running and successful Chinese language teaching programme in Sydney. Throughout the book its authors emphasise the importance of teaching methods which explore the relevance of Chinese to all aspects of students’ everyday lives; ‘Localising Chinese’ by folding it into students’ everyday sociolinguistic activities performed in English. The research presented here demonstrates how, through school-driven, research-oriented service-learning, university graduates from China learnt to use student-centred learning-focused language education as a basis for professional learning. In the context of China’s growing influence in the global academic community, this book addresses the urgent need to promote effective communication and partnerships. It provides a valuable resource for language teachers and teacher educators, as well aseducation researchers in the areas of international education, linguistics, the sociology of education and knowledge exchange.
This book presents innovative strategies for teaching the Chinese language to English-speaking students around the world, using in-depth research arising from a long-running and successful Chinese language teaching programme in Sydney. Throughout the book its authors emphasise the importance of teaching methods which explore the relevance of Chinese to all aspects of students’ everyday lives; ‘Localising Chinese’ by folding it into students’ everyday sociolinguistic activities performed in English. The research presented here demonstrates how, through school-driven, research-oriented service-learning, university graduates from China learnt to use student-centred learning-focused language education as a basis for professional learning. In the context of China’s growing influence in the global academic community, this book addresses the urgent need to promote effective communication and partnerships. It provides a valuable resource for language teachers and teacher educators, as well aseducation researchers in the areas of international education, linguistics, the sociology of education and knowledge exchange.
Combines the disciplines of sociolinguistics and sociology of education with insights into international education and the local/global presence of the Chinese language Capitalizes on learners’ perceptions of cross-sociolinguistic similarities to encourage language transfer Uses learners’ existing knowledge of recurring everyday sociolinguistic activities performed in their native language to teach the same activities in Chinese
Autor*in
Michael Singh
Themen in »Localising Chinese«
Service-Learning translanguaging Chinese language teaching international education knowledge exchange multilingual education language transfer learner-centered education Chinese language education teaching Chinese pedagogical frameworks Global China English-speaking Learners of Chinese International Service Learning Student-Centred Learning