Guangyan Chen

Performed Culture in Chinese Language Education

A Culture-Based Approach for U.S. Collegiate Contexts

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Produktbeschreibung

This book theoretically and empirically argues for culture-oriented foreign language pedagogy in the context of U.S. collegiate Chinese language education. This pedagogy is designed to address the overall drop in U.S. collegiate foreign language enrollment, as it connects foreign language programs to university missions and social needs.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 561g
• ISBN-13: 9781498584951
• ISBN-10: 1498584950
• Artikelnr.: 58697765

Autorenporträt

Guangyan Chen is an associate professor at Texas Christian University.

Inhaltsangabe

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