Teacher Voices in Chinese Language Teaching: Personal Reflections on Culture (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783030892128)

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: Scott Smith
ISBN-10: 3030892123
ISBN-13: 9783030892128
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 01/25/2023
Pages: 145
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.44d