Full Description
The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Language Teaching defines Chinese language teaching in a pedagogical, historical, and contemporary context. Throughout the volume, teaching methods are discussed, including the traditional China-based approach, and Western methods such as communicative teaching and the immersion program.
The Handbook also presents a pedagogical model covering pronunciation, tones, characters, vocabulary, grammar, and the teaching of listening, speaking, reading, and writing. The remaining chapters explore topics of language assessment, technology enhanced instruction, teaching materials and resources, Chinese for specific purposes, classroom implementation, social contexts of language teaching and language teaching policies, and pragmatics and culture.
Ideal for scholars and researchers of Chinese language teaching, the Handbook will benefit educators and teacher training programs. This is the first comprehensive volume exploring the growing area of Chinese language pedagogy.
Contents
I. Overview
Teaching Chinese as a first language in China: review and comparison
Weixiao Wei
From 'Chinese to Foreigners' to 'Chinese International Education': China's efforts in promoting its language worldwide
Chris Shei
The Beginning of Chinese Professorship and Chinese Language Instruction in the United States: History and Implications
Der-lin Chao
Teaching Chinese as a heritage language
Chang Pu
II. Chinese language pedagogy
Methods of teaching Chinese: evolution and emerging trends
Haidan Wang
Teaching Content, Developing Language in CLIL Chinese
Jane Orton
Creating a Task-Based Language Course in Mandarin Chinese
Miao-fen Tseng
Developing communicative competence in adult beginner learners of Chinese
Clare Wright
III. Teaching Chinese pronunciation and characters
Some explicit linguistic knowledge for Chinese pronunciation teaching
Bei Yang
Teaching Chinese tones
Hang Zhang
Teaching Chinese intonation and rhythm
Chunsheng Yang
Teaching Chinese pronunciation: explanation, expectation, and implementation
Jiang Liu
Recognition of two forms of characters and teaching literary Chinese
Joseph R. Allen
Teaching Chinese characters: what we know and what we can do
Bo Hu
An analysis on models of teaching spoken Chinese as a foreign language
Meiru Liu
IV. Teaching Chinese words and grammar
A usage-based approach to L2 grammar instruction delivered through the PACE model
Hong Li and Jing Z. Paul
Methods of lexical semantic inquiry in teaching advanced level vocabulary
Shiao-Wei Tham
Teaching Chinese adverbs
Yan Li
From cognitive linguistics to pedagogical grammar: On teaching the Chinese sentence-final le
Liancheng Chief
V. Materials and curricula
Considerations in preparing pedagogical materials for adult native English-speaking learners of Chinese as a Second/Foreign Language
Cornelius Kubler
Intercultural Communicative Competence in CFL Language Curricula
Madeline K. Spring
Teaching Chinese through Authentic Audio-visual Media Materials
Liling Huang and Amber Navarre
Understanding tertiary Chinese language learners' needs: A cross-curricular perspective
Hui Huang
Emotion, attitude and value in primary school Chinese textbooks
Bo Wang, Yuanyi Ma & Isaac N. Mwinlaaru
The Assessment of Chinese L2 Proficiency
Paula Winke and Wenyue Melody Ma
VI. Instructional media and resources
Using social media to teach Chinese more effectively
Ke Peng
Teaching Chinese Through Film: Rationale, Practice, and Future Directions
Yanhong Zhu
Literature in Chinese Language Teaching
Don Starr and Yunhan Hu
Multimodal Pedagogy and Chinese Visual Arts in TCFL Classrooms
Rugang Lu
The Current Status of CALL for Chinese in the United States
Zheng-Sheng Zhang
Using technology to learn to speak Chinese
Lijing Shi and Ursula Stickler
Towards Automatic Identification of Chinese Collocation Errors
Zhao-Ming Gao
Business Chinese Instruction: Past, Present, and Future
Fangyuan Yuan
VII. Teaching context and policy
Chinese Language Learning and Teaching in the UK
George X Zhang and Linda M Li
The Impact of Australian language policies on Chinese language teaching
Shen Chen and Helena Sit
Bi/Multilingual Education, Translation, and Social Mobility in Xinjiang, China
Saihong Li
Understanding how Chinese language education is used to promote citizenship education in China and Hong Kong
TAM, Angela Choi-fung
Teachers' Bicultural Awareness in Chinese Culture Instruction
Guangyan Chen and Ken Springer
Crossing the river while feeling for stones: the education of a Chinese language teacher
Julian K. Wheatley
