Performed Culture in Chinese Language Education

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

Guangyan Chen (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

248 Seiten

2020
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-8495-1 (ISBN)

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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.

Performed Culture in Chinese Language Education: A Culture-Based Approach for U.S. Collegiate Contexts elaborates on a cultural awareness-oriented, cultural performance-based, and cross-cultural communication-focused foreign language pedagogical paradigm—Performed Culture Approach — in the context of U.S. collegiate Chinese language education. Guangyan Chen draws on the data collected through questionnaires, comparisons between this pedagogy and mainstream pedagogical frameworks, and analyses of curricular development, lesson plans, and classroom discourses. Chen promotes the performed culture approach by delineating the theoretical framework of this pedagogy, reporting studies that empirically support cultural primacy in Chinese language education, and illustrating this pedagogy through analyses of a curricular structure, a lesson plan, and classroom discourses. Chen shows how this pedagogy addresses the gaps between the social need for global citizens and the insufficient integration of culture into foreign language education. The performed culture approach also addresses the overall drop in U.S. collegiate foreign language enrollment as this pedagogy connects foreign language programs to university missions and social needs.

Guangyan Chen is an associate professor at Texas Christian University.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	10.05.2021
Zusatzinfo	2 BW Illustrations, 2 Graphs, 14 Tables
Sprache	englisch
Maße	161 x 228 mm
Gewicht	517 g
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Schulpädagogik / Grundschule
ISBN-10	1-4985-8495-0 / 1498584950
ISBN-13	978-1-4985-8495-1 / 9781498584951
Zustand	Neuware