HOME Popular Books Popular Audioooks Popular Textbooks Popular Freebooks More Genres

Book

Audiobook

Genres

Teacher Voices in Chinese Language Teaching

By Scott Smith

Release : 2023-01-24

Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines, Books, Professional & Technical, Education, Reference, Foreign Languages

Kind : ebook

(0 ratings)
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.

Teacher Voices in Chinese Language Teaching

By Scott Smith

Release : 2023-01-24

Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines, Books, Professional & Technical, Education, Reference, Foreign Languages

Kind : ebook

(0 ratings)
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.

advertisement

Access e-books

More By Scott Smith

Year's Best Hardcore Horror Volume 3

How to Future

Future Cultures

A Guide to North Carolina's Freshwater Fishes

My Rhonda

You Can Be a Six Figure Author

Seize the Night

Teacher Voices in Chinese Language Teaching

Making a Living As a Children's Book Author

Why Not Retire and Become a Writer?