Teaching and Learning Chinese by Chen, Jianguo; Wang, Chuang; Cai, Jinfa;

Issues and Perspectives

Series: Chinese American Educational Research and Development Association Book Series;

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Product details:

Publisher Information Age Publishing
Date of Publication 21 June 2010
Number of Volumes Hardback

ISBN 9781617350658
Binding Hardback
No. of pages368 pages
Size 234x156x20 mm
Weight 692 g
Language English

Short description:

The book, linked to the 2008 CAERDA International Conference, provides a comprehensive and scholarly account of teaching and learning Chinese, especially in the US. It covers issues like TCSL, national standards, policy making, teacher training, pedagogy, linguistics, technology, curriculum, cultural aspects, and more.

Long description:

The book is linked to the annual theme of the 2008 CAERDA International Conference with contributing authors serving as keynote speakers, invited panelists, paper presenters, as well as specialists and educators in the field. The book provides a most comprehensive description of and a theoretically well-informed and a scholarly cogent account of teaching and learning Chinese in general and in the United States in particular. It examines a wide range of important issues in Chinese teaching and learning: current state in teaching Chinese as a Second Language (TCSL) in the United States, US national standards for learning foreign languages K-12, policy making about how to meet the growing demand for Chinese language and cultural education with regard to a national coordination of efforts, professional teacher training in terms of the quantity and quality of Chinese language teachers at all levels, promotion of early language learning, characteristics of Chinese pedagogy, aspects of Chinese linguistics, methods and methodology in teaching TCSL, techniques and technology in Chinese language education, curriculum and instruction in TCSL, cultural aspects of teaching Chinese as a Second Language, issues in Chinese pedagogy, development of Chinese as a Heritage Language (HL) and the issue of cultural identity for bilingual/multilingual learners (particularly bilingual/multilingual children), testing and evaluation in TCSL, Chinese literacy and reading, approaches to instruction and program design, etc.

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