Performed Culture in Action to Teach Chinese as a Foreign Language
Jianfen Wang, "Performed Culture in Action to Teach Chinese as a Foreign Language "
English | ISBN: 1032057742 | 2022 | 188 pages | PDF | 3 MB
English | ISBN: 1032057742 | 2022 | 188 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This volume explores best practices in implementing the Performed Culture Approach (PCA) in teaching Chinese as a foreign language (CFL).
Offering a range of chapters that demonstrate how PCA has been successfully applied to curriculum, instructional design, and assessment in CFL programs and classrooms at various levels, this text shows how PCA’s culture-focused paradigm differs fundamentally from the general communicative language teaching (CLT) framework and highlights how it can inspire innovative methods to better support learners’ ability to navigate target culture and overcome communication barriers. Additional applications of PCA in the development of learner identity, intercultural competence, autonomy, and motivation are also considered.
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