Overview
- Combines the disciplines of sociolinguistics and sociology of education with insights into international education and the local/global presence of the Chinese language
- Capitalizes on learners’ perceptions of cross-sociolinguistic similarities to encourage language transfer
- Uses learners’ existing knowledge of recurring everyday sociolinguistic activities performed in their native language to teach the same activities in Chinese
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
Keywords
- 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
About this book
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
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).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Localising Chinese
Book Subtitle: Educating Teachers through Service-Learning
Authors: Michael Singh, Thị Hồng Nhung Nguyễn
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54282-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-54281-6Published: 22 March 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-54282-3Published: 13 March 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 235
Topics: Chinese, Language Teaching, Sociology of Education, Sociology of Education, Early Childhood Education, Linguistics, general