Teaching and Learning Chinese: Issues and Perspectives (PB)

ISBN-13: 9781617350641 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 368 str.

Jianguo Chen; Chuang Wang; Jinfa Cai

Opis

Provides a comprehensive description of and a theoretically well informed and a scholarly cogent account of teaching and learning Chinese. It examines a wide range of important issues in Chinese teaching and learning.

Spis treści

• Introduction: Teaching and Learning Chinese in a Global Era—Issues and Perspectives, Jianguo Chen, Chuang Wang, and Jinfa Cai
• Part I: Chinese Language Education—A Historical Perspective.
• Chinese Language Education in the United States: A Historical Overview and Future Directions, Shuhan Wang.
• A Historical Perspective of Teaching Chinese as a Second Language, Zhiping Zhu.
• Part II: Chinese Language Education—Case Studies At College Level.
• Effects of Using Prompt Sentences in Beginning Chinese Classes, Yongan Wu.
• Creative Writing in CFL Curriculum, Hong Wei.
• Language Attitudes Among American College Students in Chinese Language Classes, Ko-yin Sun.
• Motivating U.S. Students to Learn Chinese as a Second Language: Understanding the Interactions Among Motivation, Ethnicity, and Teaching Strategies, Aubrey Wang.
• Part III: Chinese Language Education—Case Studies At K-12 School Level.
• What Difficulties Do Children Experience While Learning to Read and Write Chinese? Hui-Hua Wang and Alice Sterling Honig.
• Literacy Practices in the Family Household of Taiwanese American Children, Hui-Ching Yang.
• Acquiring Chinese Simultaneously with Two Other Languages: Effective Home Strategies, Xiao-Lei Wang.
• Part IV: Program Development, Curriculum Design, And The Acquisition Of Chinese Literacy.
• The Role of Chinese Culture and Language in Global Education: The Chinese International Engineering Program at University of Rhode Island, Xiong Wen and John Grandin.
• Curriculum Design and Special Features of “Computer Chinese” and Chinese For Tomorrow, Wayne W. He and Dela Jiao.
• Morphological Awareness: Why and How to Link it to Chinese Literacy Teaching and Learning, Phil D. Liu, Yanling Zhou, and Catherine McBride-Chang.
• An Analysis of Orthographic Processing: Non-Chinese and Chinese Readers’ Visual-Spatial Concept, Pei-Ying Lin and Ruth A. Childs.
• Part V: Issues In Teaching Chinese Literature In American Classroom.
• Teaching Chinese Literature in the Post-American World, Rujie Wang.
• To Be or Not to Be?: Death as the Paradox of Survival—Chinese Literature in the American Classroom, Jianguo Chen.
• About the Editors and Contribtors.