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Against Chinese as a Foreign Language

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With China being a current global superpower in knowledge production, local educators are responding to the need for school students to learn how to speak Chinese. Localising Chinese reports on research into the professional learning of university graduates from China teaching school students in a largely English-speaking nation. Spoken Chinese was taught as a locally usable rather than relegated as foreign or alien language. In many parts of the world, professional standards are important for informing teachers’ capability development to better meet students’ language education needs. The study reflected in this book describes how such standards provide an important vehicle for educating emergent teachers through service-learning and developing their professional capabilities to make Chinese learnable.

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Singh, M., Nguyễn, T.H.N. (2018). Against Chinese as a Foreign Language. In: Localising Chinese. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54282-3_1

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