Overview
- Draws on the author’s extensive training and experience in educational statistics and measurement
- Broadens the scope of problems in Chinese language teaching by adopting concepts and theories beyond Chinese linguistics
- Beneficial to researchers and practitioners alike, in particular classroom teachers thanks to its balance of theory and practice
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Cognitive and Affective Aspects of Chinese Language Teaching
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Teaching of Chinese language
- Chinese language teaching in Singapore
- Chinese language learning in Singapore
- difficulties in learning Chinese language
- Difficulty of Chinese language
- wordlists for Chinese language
- bilingual approach to Chinese language learning
- Readability formula for Chinese language
- Memory strategies for learning Chinese characters
- Teaching and learning Chinese characters
- Chinese as endangered language in Singapore
- language death of Chinese in Singapore
- multidisciplinary based research model
- measurements for Chinese language teaching and learning
- educational statistics for Chinese language teaching
- attitude toward Chinese language scale
- chinese
About this book
The book includes lesson design and instructional practices for re-prioritizing Chinese as a set of trainable skills, as well as teaching culture in the context of teaching the language. It also introduces the Chinese as a Second Language Readability Formula to help learners overcome their difficulties with learning Hanzi (Chinese characters), and the Attitude Toward Chinese Language Scale to help understand the various factors that can influence Chinese language learning. It also proposes a student-oriented model for conducting problem-based research, tapping into the disciplines of psycholinguistics and sociolinguistics.
Resolving or minimizing the issues identified here requires action at the macro level by Chinese language researchers on a national scale, and at the micro level by classroom teachers through action research.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Teaching Chinese Language in Singapore
Book Subtitle: Concerns and Visions
Authors: Kaycheng Soh
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-1149-3
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-1148-6Published: 12 January 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-1151-6Published: 13 January 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-1149-3Published: 11 January 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 152
Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations
Topics: Language Education, Language Education, Language Teaching, Chinese