Teacher Voices in Chinese Language Teaching

Personal Reflections on Culture

By:

Scott Smith

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Hardback

Series:

Palgrave Studies in Teaching and Learning Chinese

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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.

Author Biography:

Scott Smith is the Dean of Education at Morling College. He spent an extended period in China where he learned Mandarin and taught English.

Release date NZ

January 25th, 2023

Author

Scott Smith

Series

Palgrave Studies in Teaching and Learning Chinese

Pages

145

Edition

1st ed. 2022

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

IX, 145 p.

ISBN-13

9783030892128

Product ID

35868930

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