Teaching the Chinese Language Remotely: Global Cases and Perspectives

by Shijuan Liu (Editor)

Overview

This edited book brings together global perspectives and case studies from five continents to provide an international picture of teaching Chinese remotely. It consists of 15 original chapters by 21 authors from 10 countries. Addressing both practice and research, these chapters collectively offer a comprehensive view of how Chinese language courses worldwide were urgently moved to fully online during the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic.This edited volume reports fresh and first-hand experiences of Chinese language instructors and students in different countries as well as their perceptions of issues regarding remote teaching and learning in an emergency situation.The book will be of interest to Chinese language teachers and students, as well as scholars with a focus on language education and online teaching and learning more broadly.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783030870577
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	02/01/2022
Edition description:	1st ed. 2022
Pages:	391
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

Shijuan Liu is Associate Professor in the Foreign Languages Department at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, USA. She has over 20 years’ teaching experience and numerous publications on language education and technology integration,and has received multiple teaching awards and research grants.

Table of Contents

1. An Overview.- 2. Behind the Screen: Lessons Learnt from a Chinese Emergency Remote Teaching Experience in Czech Republic.- 3. Emergency Remote Chinese Language Learning at a German University: Student Perceptions.- 4. Learning Chinese Online in the Age of Covid-19: The Cases of Two Italian Universities.- 5. A Blessing in Disguise: The Emergency Remote Teaching of Chinese in University of Cape Town in South Africa.- 6. Online Mandarin Language Teaching and Learning during COVID-19 Pandemic at University of Mauritius in Africa.- 7. Remote Chinese Language Teaching at the University of Queensland During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Reflection from Australia.- 8. Online Chinese Teaching and Learning at Massey University in New Zealand.- 9. Remote Chinese Teaching and Learning at Japanese Universities during the COVID-19 Pandemic.- 10. Synchronous Online Language Teaching: A Reflection from Hong Kong.- 11. Applying Empathy Theory in Online Chinese Language Education: Examples from a Chinese University.- 12. From Flipped/Blended to Fully Online: Lessons Learned and Strategies for the Future.- 13. Instructor's’Social, Cognitive, Teaching Presences in Emergency Remote Teaching of Chinese Language in the United States: A Qualitative Study.- 14. Reconfiguration of L2 Chinese Learners’ Ecologies of Resources during the COVID-19 Pandemic in China and the US.- 15. Perspectives of Instructor's and Students on Online Chinese Teaching and Learning in 2020: Preliminary Findings.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“This is a timely book to help teachers of Chinese as a second language to deal with the challenges of emergency remote teaching with more confidence. Its unique value lies not only in the careful studies of experiences of Chinese students and teachers during the pandemic, but also in the truly global perspectives brought by researchers in 10 countries around the world within different educational and cultural contexts. With the continuation of online education to a certain extent in the post-COVID era, this book will continue to be a useful reference.”
-Chengzhi Chu, University of California at Davis, USA

“A timely and invaluable contribution to Chinese language teaching (CLT). With its panoramic coverage of integrated use of technologies since and before the pandemic across five continents, the book combines practices with theories from the perspectives of both learners and teachers, offering many practical tips and rich food for thought. A highly useful reference for CLT teachers and students.”
-George Xinsheng Zhang, Richmond, The American International University in London, UK

“What do you do when there is not enough knowledge available to solve the problems you face in challenging educational situations? This book provides an overview of efforts by colleagues around the world to meetthe challenges of teaching Chinese remotely during the pandemic, to learn from the experience and to pass this knowledge on to others. Real educational engineers in the truest sense of the word.”
-Jozef Colpaert, University of Antwerp, Belgium; Editor-in-chief of Computer Assisted Language Learning