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Teaching Chinese in Schools
Singh, Michael; Han, Jinghe
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Description for Teaching Chinese in Schools
Hardback. Series: Palgrave Studies in Teaching and Learning Chinese. Num Pages: 128 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2GDC; CJA; JNLA; JNU; YQF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 138. .
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
Series
Palgrave Studies in Teaching and Learning Chinese
Number of Pages
235
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137542816
SKU
V9781137542816
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About Singh, Michael; Han, Jinghe
Michael Singh is a professor in the Centre for Educational Research at Western Sydney University, Australia. His research focuses on post-monolingual education, translanguaging practices, the business of English-only medium instruction and research, internationalising doctoral pedagogy, and research-oriented work-integrated service-learning. His recently co-authored books include Pedagogies for Internationalising Research Education (2017), and Deschooling L’earning: Young Adults and the New Spirit of ... Read more
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