Overview
- Problematises the concepts of multilingualism and monolingualism that limit Chinese education
- Studies the tensions between multilingualism and monolingualism in Chinese education
- Reconceptualises the connection between language education, intellectual cultures, and teaching/learning
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Teaching and Learning Chinese (PSTLC)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book examines Transnational Chinese Language Education (TCLE) in the Australian context. Taking a post-monolingual perspective, the authors examine Chinese teachers’ monolingual and multilingual practices and mindsets in their educational practices. They find that a Chinese-centric monolingual mindset dominates the Chinese teachers, while a multilingual mindset permeates in their classroom teaching, creating an unconscious tension between the two perspectives. The book proposes that it is the responsibility of teacher educators to train future Chinese teachers with an awareness of this issue, as well as suitable strategies to overcome it and be efficient language teachers. This book will be of interest to applied linguists, pre-service and in-service language teachers, as well as students and scholars of Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages (TCSOL).
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Yu Han is a Lecturer at Nanfang College, Guangzhou, China. She holds a PhD from Western Sydney University, supported by the China Scholarship Council (CSC). She specializes in studies of language teacher education. As a bilingual, she has publications in both English and Chinese journals.
Xiaoyan Ji is a PhD candidate and higher degree researcher in School of Education, The University of Sydney, Australia. His research interests are language education and language teacher development. As a bilingual, he has publications in both English and Chinese journals.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Postmonolingual Transnational Chinese Education
Authors: Yu Han, Xiaoyan Ji
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Teaching and Learning Chinese
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15153-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-15152-1Published: 22 October 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-15153-8Published: 20 October 2022
Series ISSN: 2946-2479
Series E-ISSN: 2946-2487
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 111
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Applied Linguistics, Asian Languages, Multilingualism, Language Education, Teaching and Teacher Education