This article reports on an exploratory,study of instructional issues encountered,in the teaching ... more This article reports on an exploratory,study of instructional issues encountered,in the teaching of Mandarin,as a foreign language,at the university level. The research reveals the sometimes conflicting views held by teachers, researchers, students, and institutions with re- spect to instructional methods and types of classroom interaction, particularly in the context of form-focused instruction. Data come from regular, recorded classroom observations,
Chinese as a heritage language: Fostering rooted …, 2008
This chapter provides an overview of some of the most important current issues and challenges for... more This chapter provides an overview of some of the most important current issues and challenges for research and educational practice in the teaching, learning, and assessment of Chinese as a heritage language (CHL) at the postsecondary level. We review existing research and identify areas in which further theoretical and practical attention is needed with regard to political, social-psychological, linguistic, and curricular dimensions of CHL. The shift in recent research to ecologically valid qualitative investigations of the lived experiences of CHL and other language learners, in terms of their shifting (or multiple, hybrid) identities, trajectories, and literacies, is highlighted. Salient practical concerns are also discussed, such as identifying heritage and non-heritage students' diverse needs and planning curriculum accordingly; accommodating different student populations in single-track versus dual-track programs; developing effective and engaging instructional resources and assessment procedures and instruments; and providing advocacy for the legitimacy of CHL learners while at the same time attending to non-CHL students' needs equally well. Finally, we argue that understanding CHL students' heterogeneity and their potential will help us to better serve linguistically diverse learners in language courses and maximize the social, academic, economic, and cultural benefits of HL maintenance and development in Canada, the United States, and other diaspora contexts. 1
This article reports on an exploratory study of instructional issues encountered in the teaching ... more This article reports on an exploratory study of instructional issues encountered in the teaching of Mandarin as a foreign language at the university level. The research reveals the sometimes conflicting views held by teachers, researchers, students, and institutions with respect to instructional methods and types of classroom interaction, particularly in the context of form-focused instruction. Data come from regular, recorded classroom observations, questionnaires, and interviews with one teacher and her students over the period of one semester. Findings revealed that, whereas the teacher was committed to providing opportunities for peer interaction and practice and not providing excessive error correction, repetition, or modeling, students on the other hand expressed strong views about the desirability of having less peer interaction rather than more, and conversely, more error correction, repetition, and modeling. The article concludes that further classroom research in non-European language courses is necessary to examine more closely the applicability of findings from previous studies involving primarily European languages and the cognitive and sociocultural basis for students' views, and how and why those views change over time.
Canadian Modern Language Review/ La Revue canadienne des langues vivantes, 2000
... from not only Ming, but others in her social and educational network, such ... in TESOL workp... more ... from not only Ming, but others in her social and educational network, such ... in TESOL workplace-oriented research, combining interlanguage pragmatics, ethnography, and languagesocialization (see Li ... Ming's speech act performance in exactly the same context across points ...
This article reports on an exploratory,study of instructional issues encountered,in the teaching ... more This article reports on an exploratory,study of instructional issues encountered,in the teaching of Mandarin,as a foreign language,at the university level. The research reveals the sometimes conflicting views held by teachers, researchers, students, and institutions with re- spect to instructional methods and types of classroom interaction, particularly in the context of form-focused instruction. Data come from regular, recorded classroom observations,
Chinese as a heritage language: Fostering rooted …, 2008
This chapter provides an overview of some of the most important current issues and challenges for... more This chapter provides an overview of some of the most important current issues and challenges for research and educational practice in the teaching, learning, and assessment of Chinese as a heritage language (CHL) at the postsecondary level. We review existing research and identify areas in which further theoretical and practical attention is needed with regard to political, social-psychological, linguistic, and curricular dimensions of CHL. The shift in recent research to ecologically valid qualitative investigations of the lived experiences of CHL and other language learners, in terms of their shifting (or multiple, hybrid) identities, trajectories, and literacies, is highlighted. Salient practical concerns are also discussed, such as identifying heritage and non-heritage students' diverse needs and planning curriculum accordingly; accommodating different student populations in single-track versus dual-track programs; developing effective and engaging instructional resources and assessment procedures and instruments; and providing advocacy for the legitimacy of CHL learners while at the same time attending to non-CHL students' needs equally well. Finally, we argue that understanding CHL students' heterogeneity and their potential will help us to better serve linguistically diverse learners in language courses and maximize the social, academic, economic, and cultural benefits of HL maintenance and development in Canada, the United States, and other diaspora contexts. 1
This article reports on an exploratory study of instructional issues encountered in the teaching ... more This article reports on an exploratory study of instructional issues encountered in the teaching of Mandarin as a foreign language at the university level. The research reveals the sometimes conflicting views held by teachers, researchers, students, and institutions with respect to instructional methods and types of classroom interaction, particularly in the context of form-focused instruction. Data come from regular, recorded classroom observations, questionnaires, and interviews with one teacher and her students over the period of one semester. Findings revealed that, whereas the teacher was committed to providing opportunities for peer interaction and practice and not providing excessive error correction, repetition, or modeling, students on the other hand expressed strong views about the desirability of having less peer interaction rather than more, and conversely, more error correction, repetition, and modeling. The article concludes that further classroom research in non-European language courses is necessary to examine more closely the applicability of findings from previous studies involving primarily European languages and the cognitive and sociocultural basis for students' views, and how and why those views change over time.
Canadian Modern Language Review/ La Revue canadienne des langues vivantes, 2000
... from not only Ming, but others in her social and educational network, such ... in TESOL workp... more ... from not only Ming, but others in her social and educational network, such ... in TESOL workplace-oriented research, combining interlanguage pragmatics, ethnography, and languagesocialization (see Li ... Ming's speech act performance in exactly the same context across points ...
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