Localising Chinese

1. Front Matter

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2. Against Chinese as a Foreign Language

   • Michael Singh, Thị Hồng Nhung Nguyễn

   Pages 1-27

3. Post-Monolingual Education for English-Speaking Learners of Chinese

   • Michael Singh, Thị Hồng Nhung Nguyễn

   Pages 29-62

4. Researching Professional Learning in Language Education

   • Michael Singh, Thị Hồng Nhung Nguyễn

   Pages 63-86

5. Research-Oriented School-Engaged Teacher Education

   • Michael Singh, Thị Hồng Nhung Nguyễn

   Pages 87-114

6. Learning How to Use Chinese as a Local Language

   • Michael Singh, Thị Hồng Nhung Nguyễn

   Pages 115-144

7. Standards-Based Professional Learning for Emergent Teachers

   • Michael Singh, Thị Hồng Nhung Nguyễn

   Pages 145-175

8. Localising Chinese Language Education Through International Service-Learning

   • Michael Singh, Thị Hồng Nhung Nguyễn

   Pages 177-196

9. Teaching Students through Localising Chinese

   • Michael Singh, Thị Hồng Nhung Nguyễn

   Pages 197-209

10. Back Matter

    Pages 211-235

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This book presents innovative strategies for teaching the Chinese language to English-speaking students around the world, using in-depth research arising from a long-running and successful Chinese language teaching programme in Sydney. Throughout the book its authors emphasise the importance of teaching methods which explore the relevance of Chinese to all aspects of students’ everyday lives; ‘Localising Chinese’ by folding it into students’ everyday sociolinguistic activities performed in English. The research presented here demonstrates how, through school-driven, research-oriented service-learning, university graduates from China learnt to use student-centred learning-focused language education as a basis for professional learning. In the context of China’s growing influence in the global academic community, this book addresses the urgent need to promote effective communication and partnerships. It provides a valuable resource for language teachers and teacher educators, as well aseducation researchers in the areas of international education, linguistics, the sociology of education and knowledge exchange.

• Service-Learning
• translanguaging
• Chinese language teaching
• international education
• knowledge exchange
• multilingual education
• language transfer
• learner-centered education
• Chinese language education
• teaching Chinese
• pedagogical frameworks
• Global China
• English-speaking Learners of Chinese
• International Service Learning
• Student-Centred Learning
• internationalising education
• research-informed teaching
• localisation strategies
• Sinofication
• chinese

• Centre for Educational Research, Western Sydney University, Penrith, NSW, Australia

  Michael Singh

• School of Education, Western Sydney University, Penrith, NSW, Australia

  Thị Hồng Nhung Nguyễn

Michael Singh is a professor in the Centre for Educational Research at Western Sydney University, Australia. His research focuses on post-monolingual education, translanguaging practices, the business of English-only medium instruction and research, internationalising doctoral pedagogy, and research-oriented work-integrated service-learning. His recently co-authored books include Pedagogies for Internationalising Research Education (2017), and Deschooling L’earning: Young Adults and the New Spirit of Capitalism (2014).

Thị Hồng Nhung Nguyễn is a researcher in the School of Education at Western Sydney University, Australia. Nguyen’s research focuses on work-integrated learning, multilingual education, non-formal education and pedagogical frameworks. Her research has been published in Education Sciences, Modern University Education, and the edited collection Globalisation of Higher Education – Internationalised Education Research and Practice (2018).

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