1st Edition
Frontiers of L2 Chinese Language Education A Global Perspective
Chapter 1 Teaching in action: L2 Chinese pedagogical practice and reflection
Yanyin Zhang, Xiaoping Gao
Chapter 2 Innovative excellence: A case study of a Chinese language flagship program
Wayne He
Chapter 3 From individual tones to connected speech: The case of Tone 3
Hang Zhang
Chapter 4 Student engagement and pedagogical innovations for the pandemic- precipitated online delivery of university Chinese courses
Yanfeng Qu
Chapter 5 Connecting Integrated Performance Assessment to Chinese Classroom Teaching and Learning
Song Jiang, Jing Wu, Jia Xu, Jiaxin Tian
Chapter 6 Oral corrective feedback on Mandarin pronunciation in live online classes
Xiaoping Gao
Chapter 7 From input to output: Learnability of the Chinese existential structure
Yanyin Zhang
Chapter 8 A proposal for a pedagogical grammar syllabus in tertiary Chinese language education in Japan
Keika Suzuki, Kaori Nishi, Yutaka Furukawa, Satomi Nakata
Chapter 9 Striving for educational equity in South Africa: L2 Chinese instruction under Covid-19
Liling Yan, Aobing Zeng, Jianling Guo
Chapter 10 Online Chinese language teaching now and post COVID-19: Challenges and opportunities from the experience and perspective of a UK teacher
George X Zhang
Chapter 11 Seventy years of Chinese language education in New Zealand: A transdisciplinary overview
Danping Wang
Chapter 12 Looking ahead: Contextualizing the future of L2 Chinese pedagogy studies
Yanyin Zhang, Xiaoping Gao
Biography
Yanyin Zhang (PhD, senior lecturer) works at the Australian National University. Her current research interests and publications include second language (English and Chinese) acquisition and pedagogy. She has published in a variety of prestigious international journals and edited books such as Language Learning and John Benjamins.
Xiaoping Gao (PhD) is senior lecturer in Chinese and currently directs the languages and linguistics discipline and the Chinese language program at the University of Wollongong. She has published widely in international journals and books on Chinese as a second language research, language pedagogy, and intercultural communication.
'This edited book is a valuable collection of articles, covering a diversity of interesting topics in the field of L2 Chinese teaching. Professionals in the field can benefit greatly from a broad range of highly original and insightful discussions offered by the authors on practical and important issues in the field.'
Boping Yuan, Reader in Chinese Language and Linguistics, University of Cambridge
