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Performed Culture in Chinese Language Education: A Culture-Based Approach for U.S. Collegiate Contexts elaborates on a cultural awareness-oriented, cultural performance-based, and cross-cultural communication-focused foreign language pedagogical paradigm—Performed Culture Approach — in the context of U.S. collegiate Chinese language education. Guangyan Chen draws on the data collected through questionnaires, comparisons between this pedagogy and mainstream pedagogical frameworks, and analyses of curricular development, lesson plans, and classroom discourses. Chen promotes the performed culture approach by delineating the theoretical framework of this pedagogy, reporting studies that empirically support cultural primacy in Chinese language education, and illustrating this pedagogy through analyses of a curricular structure, a lesson plan, and classroom discourses. Chen shows how this pedagogy addresses the gaps between the social need for global citizens and the insufficient integration of culture into foreign language education. The performed culture approach also addresses the overall drop in U.S. collegiate foreign language enrollment as this pedagogy connects foreign language programs to university missions and social needs.
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
Part 1: The Needs for a Culture-Based Chinese Language Pedagogy
1. The Needs for a Culture-Based Chinese Language Pedagogy
2. Conceptualizing Culture in the U.S. Chinese as a Foreign Language (CFL) Setting
3. Approaches to Integrating Culture into CFL Education
Part 2: Culture-Based Language Pedagogy: Performed Culture Approach (PCA)
4.Performed Culture Approach
5.Comparisons between PCA and Mainstream Pedagogical Frameworks
6.Comparisons between PCA and Two Alternatives to Mainstream Pedagogical Frameworks
Part 3: Studies Empirically Supporting Cultural Primacy in CFL Education
7.Culture Provides Important Criteria for Assessing CFL learners' Oral Performances
8.Culturally Ingrained Perceptions Outweigh Teaching Experience When Teachers Assess a CFL Learner's Oral Performance
Part 4: Applications of PCA
9.A PCA-Oriented Chinese Curriculum
10.PCA-Adapted Lesson Plans
11.PCA-Based Classroom Discourse
References
Index
About the Author
