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.
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Personal Reflections on Culture
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ISBN
9783030892135
Publisert
2023
Utgiver
Springer Nature
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Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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