Teaching Chinese as an International Language by Yeng-Seng Goh

Teaching Chinese as an International Language by Yeng-Seng Goh

Bilingual and bicultural scholar Yeng-Seng Goh offers the first in-depth English language analysis of global Chinese, exploring the spread of Chinese beyond China and its emergence as a global language. Approaching the topic from a Singapore perspective, Goh uses this fascinating language ecosystem, with its unique bilingual language policy, as a case study for Chinese language learning. Offering clear insights into the pedagogy of teaching Chinese as an international language (TCIL), this book covers a range of important topics, such as the use of English in the teaching of Chinese, the teaching of Chinese by non-native teachers, information and communications technology in L2 learning and teaching, and the progressive testing of receptive skills. In doing so, it presents a new, integrative approach to the compilation of Chinese learner's dictionaries, an innovative bilingual hybrid model for training TCIL teachers, and a solid theoretical framework for Masters of Arts programmes in TCIL.

'This book is ideal for both academics in the fields of language learning and bilingualism, and teachers who provide instructions in Chinese - or even English - around the worldIt also contains a number of chapters which will be of interest to policy makers in government agencies in countries where English and Chinese are taught in the school system. It will also be of interest to graduate students and researchers concerned with language planning and related fields of applied linguistics. Also, general readers - even if they lack proficiency in Chinese - will find much of historical and sociological interest in the range of topics covered within all the 14 chapters in this book.' Zhi Huang, LINGUIST List

Professor Yeng-Seng Goh is a leading authority on Chinese language policy in Singapore. He has pioneered an innovative pedagogical model called the 'Bilingual Approach' to teach Chinese to the increasing number of Singaporean students hailing from English-speaking homes.

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ISBN 13	9781107660809
ISBN 10	1107660807
Title	Teaching Chinese as an International Language
Author	Yeng-Seng Goh
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Year published	2020-04-02
Number of pages	229
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