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Teaching Chinese, Teaching in Chinese, and Teaching the Chinese

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This article examines specific issues encountered in various areas of Chinese teaching in Australia. These issues are linked to the spheres of language planning as acquisition and as recovery and language planning as retention (Lo Bianco, 10.1007/s10993-006-9042-3). Specifically relevant to Chinese in Australia is its current prominence in formally declared national language policy, its changing status over time and its similarities and differences with Chinese in the United States (Wang, 10.1007/s10993-006-9043-2). The internationalization of education, and its commodification, has in recent years led to a major expansion in the range of offerings in Chinese in Australia, now catering to growing, and in some institutions to numerically dominant, groupings of native speakers with radically different language and academic needs from the traditional clientele of tertiary and school Chinese programs.

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Abbreviations

ASAA:

Asian Studies Association of Australia

ASC:

Asian Studies Council

ALLC:

Australian Language and Literacy Council

LOTE:

Languages other than English

LPP:

Language Policy and Planning

PRC:

People’s Republic of China

MSC:

Modern Standard Chinese

UNESCO:

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

VELS:

Victorian Essential Learning Standards

VCAA:

Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority

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  1. School of International and Political Studies, Deakin University, Burwood, VIC, Australia

    Guo-Qiang Liu

  2. Language and Literacy Education, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia

    Joseph Lo Bianco

  3. The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

    Joseph Lo Bianco

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Liu, GQ., Lo Bianco, J. Teaching Chinese, Teaching in Chinese, and Teaching the Chinese. Lang Policy 6, 95–117 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10993-006-9041-4

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