Overview
- Provides the first collection of urgently needed innovative pedagogies for the Chinese language teacher community, for use in many international teaching contexts
- The first book to offer studies on Chinese language teaching and learning with an explicit focus on the three crucial areas: learners, teachers and technologies
- Features research-based classroom studies of interest and practical value to practitioners, researchers, and teacher educators
- Positions the teaching of Chinese as a foreign language within the broader context of contemporary theoretical changes in education and language pedagogy by considering intercultural language learning and the use of technologies in language learning
Part of the book series: Multilingual Education (MULT, volume 15)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
Keywords
- CFL pedagogy
- Chinese Language and culture
- Chinese as a foreign language
- Chinese language and linguistics
- Constructivist education
- Content and language integrated learning in Chinese
- Effective Chinese language education
- Foreign language learning and teaching
- Immersion Chinese language program
- Innovative language pedagogy
- Intercultural competence
- Intercultural language learning
- Language policy in Australia
- Learner autonomy
- New Technologies in Chinese language learning
- Pedagogy for Chinese as a foreign language
- Reflective practitioner teachers in CFL
- Sociocultural learning in acquiring Chinese language
- Teaching Chinese in overseas contexts
- The role of teacher knowledge in Chinese as a foreign language
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Robyn Moloney is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Education, Macquarie University. She teaches Languages Methodology to pre-service language teachers, and supervises doctoral projects in language issues. Her research interests focus on language teacher development, intercultural learning, heritage language learners, and Chinese language education in Australia. She has many years’ previous experience as a secondary school teacher of various languages.
Dr Hui Ling Xu is a Senior Lecturer of Chinese Studies in the Department of International Studies at Macquarie University, Sydney. She has extensive tertiary foreign language teaching experience and broad research interests including descriptive linguistics, second language acquisition, teaching Chinese as a foreign language, Chinese heritage language education, and the use of innovative education technology.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Exploring Innovative Pedagogy in the Teaching and Learning of Chinese as a Foreign Language
Editors: Robyn Moloney, Hui Ling Xu
Series Title: Multilingual Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-772-7
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-287-771-0Published: 17 November 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-10-1307-2Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-981-287-772-7Published: 07 November 2015
Series ISSN: 2213-3208
Series E-ISSN: 2213-3216
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 271
Number of Illustrations: 23 b/w illustrations
Topics: Language Education, Chinese, Teaching and Teacher Education