Teacher voices in Chinese language teaching: personal reflections on culture / Scott Smith.
2022
PL1065
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Title
Teacher voices in Chinese language teaching: personal reflections on culture / Scott Smith.
Author
Smith, Scott, author.
ISBN
9783030892135 (electronic bk.)
3030892131 (electronic bk.)
3030892123
9783030892128
3030892131 (electronic bk.)
3030892123
9783030892128
Publication Details
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource.
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-030-89213-5 doi
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PL1065
Dewey Decimal Classification
495.1
Summary
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. Scott Smith is Senior Lecturer at Excelsia College, Sydney, Australia. He spent an extended period in China where he learned Mandarin and taught English.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Palgrave studies in teaching and learning Chinese.
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Table of Contents
1 Who is Teaching Who What? Chinese as a Foreign Language Teaching in Australian Schools
2 Intercultural Competence as a Goal of Language Learning: What Are Chinese Teachers Doing with Culture?
3 A Way to Discover Culture in Language
4 Teacher Voices on Thoughts About Language and Culture Teaching
5 The Way Forward
Appendix A: Online Survey for CFL Teachers
Appendix B: Interview Questions (Part A).
2 Intercultural Competence as a Goal of Language Learning: What Are Chinese Teachers Doing with Culture?
3 A Way to Discover Culture in Language
4 Teacher Voices on Thoughts About Language and Culture Teaching
5 The Way Forward
Appendix A: Online Survey for CFL Teachers
Appendix B: Interview Questions (Part A).