- Title
- Chinese language teaching in Australia
- Creator
- Chen, Shen; Zhang, Yuzhe
- Relation
- Learning Chinese in Diasporic Communities: Many Pathways to Being Chinese p. 181-200
- Relation
- AILA Applied Linguistics Series 12
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/aals.12.10che
- Publisher
- John Benjamins Publishing
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2014
- Description
- Located in the Asian-Pacific region, Australia is a unique example of English speaking country which has progressive language policies in promoting Asian languages, Chinese in particular. The history has witnessed three stages of development of Chinese language teaching. In the first stage, Chinese language learning was initiated and organised by local Chinese community schools featured with different curricula decided by various sub-groups. Secondly, the Australian government's multicultural and language policies have further promoted and supported the Chinese language learning in community schools. Finally the Chinese language teaching has expanded to the main stream schools on the basis of state-based curricula. A national unified curriculum is developing in order to meet the needs of fast growing learners of Chinese in schools all over the nation. The research described in this chapter on Chinese language teaching in community schools and main stream schools has depended on a policy study of Australia and a case study through qualitative investigations at three universities in the state of New South Wales. The research has revealed some pedagogical problems of Chinese language teaching in social and cultural context of Australia and provided some suggestions to improve current performance of Chinese language teaching and learning.
- Subject
- Chinese language; education; national curriculum
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1065406
- Identifier
- uon:17830
- Identifier
- ISBN:9789027270245
- Language
- eng
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