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- Title
Bilingual Teachers' Contextualization in Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language in Australian Schools.
- Authors
Ling, Xufeng; Han, Jinghe; Ma, Yue
- Abstract
This research focuses on the practice of contextualization in teaching Chinese as a foreign language among a cohort of bilingual language teacher-researchers. It aims to extend the prevalent emphasis in the current literature that acknowledges the role of context in language education; however, these research studies primarily give voice to linguistic contexts or relegates context into a static physical space such as 'environment'. This research is grounded in a social constructionism perspective whereby context is regarded as a dynamic relation-building process, or more accurately, a contextualizing process, enabled through various sociocultural activities. The data reveal that the teacher-researchers employed various forms of contextualization in teaching and linked these to particular teaching content through identifiable, purposeful activities, resulting in a variety of students' responses. This research provides an evidence-based understanding of contextualization in CFL teaching for a more sustainable second language education.
- Subjects
CHINESE as a second language; BILINGUAL teachers; FOREIGN language education; LANGUAGE schools; SOCIAL constructionism
- Publication
Sustainability (2071-1050), 2023, Vol 15, Issue 6, p5564
- ISSN
2071-1050
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/su15065564