Multilingualism and Translanguaging in Chinese Language Classrooms

1. Front Matter

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2. Challenges of Teaching Chinese in Multilingual Contexts

   • Danping Wang

   Pages 1-15

3. Medium of Instruction Policies and Pedagogies in CSL Teaching

   • Danping Wang

   Pages 17-41

4. Classroom Language Research: Theories and Approaches

   • Danping Wang

   Pages 43-67

5. Translanguaging as Pedagogy: Practices and Perceptions

   • Danping Wang

   Pages 69-96

6. Researching Classroom Translanguaging

   • Danping Wang

   Pages 97-106

7. Back Matter

   Pages 107-127

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This book presents new research on Chinese as a Second Language (CSL) teaching from an ethnographic classroom study on classroom translanguaging practices that highlights the policy and pedagogical implications of adopting a creative and principled multilingual approach. Drawing on a case study from Hong Kong, it analyses naturally observed language patterns in CSL classrooms and the attitudes of students and teachers towards prescribed classroom language policies, and thereby demonstrates the importance of mixing Chinese, English and students’ home languages to achieve successful second language learning. It discusses the nature and guiding principles for classroom translanguaging research and provides research tools that will enable second language teachers to examine their own language practices. The author argues persuasively that second language teaching practices and policies must reflect the current reality of language use and the diverse learning needs of multilingual students.This book will appeal to teacher educators and researchers in fields such as second language acquisition, foreign language teaching and language policy.

• Chinese as a Second Language (CSL)
• Chinese as a foreign language (CFL)
• Language policy
• Language practice
• Medium of Instruction (MoI)
• Ethnography
• Translanguaging
• code-switching
• English as a lingua franca (ELF)
• classroom research design
• multilingual learners
• monolingualism
• Classroom discourse
• chinese

“The author’s insightful analyses provide an important basis for us to re-engage in a discussion of how to design pedagogical choices to better reflect the multilingual realities in which Chinese language learning takes place.” (Linfei Yi and Wenhao Diao, Chinese as a Second Language, Vol. 55 (1), 2020)

• School of Cultures, Languages and Linguistics , University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

  Danping Wang

Danping Wang is a lecturer in Chinese in the School of Cultures, Languages and Linguistics, University of Auckland, New Zealand. Her research interests include multilingualism in education, classroom discourse and language policy. She was awarded Teaching Excellence Award and Sino-British Fellowship for her active and innovative contributions in Chinese language education.

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