Teaching and Learning Chinese

Issues and Perspectives

Jianguo Chen, Chuang Wang, Jinfa Cai

• Publisher: Information Age Publishing
• Year: 2010
• Print ISBN: 9781617350641, 9781617350658
• eBook ISBN: 9781617350665
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Higher Education

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Teaching and Learning Chinese: Issues and Perspectives
• Chinese American Educational Research and Development Association Book Series
• Teaching and Learning Chinese: Issues and Perspectives
• Copyright Page
• Chinese American Educational Research and Development Association Book Series
• Contents
• Introduction: Teaching and Learning Chinese in a Global Era: Issues and Perspectives
• I. CHINESE LANGUAGE EDUCATION—A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
• II. CHINESE LANGUAGE EDUCATION— CASE STUDIES AT COLLEGE LEVEL
• III. CHINESE LANGUAGE EDUCATION—CASE STUDIES AT K-12 SCHOOL LEVEL
• IV. PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT, CURRICULUM DESIGN, AND THE ACQUISITION OF CHINESE LITERACY
• V. ISSUES IN TEACHING CHINESE LITERATURE IN AMERICAN CLASSROOM
• About the Editors and Contribtors