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Contradictions in Making 中文 (Zhōngwén/Chinese) Learnable

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This chapter provides an innovative approach to considering the contradictions teachers experience in making 中文 (Zhōngwén/Chinese) learnable as a local/global language in Australia. Contradictions in making 中文 (Zhōngwén/Chinese) learnable is firstly presented, followed by a critical examination of appropriate 中文 (Zhōngwén/Chinese) educational practices of the participants and a study of the contradictions in current translanguaging research. Through engaging with the work of emerging teacher-researchers the analysis of contradictions presented in this chapter provides an understanding of the complexity of educational ways of “doing” languages education language, which suggests how appropriate educational theory can contribute to good teaching and good language education.

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  1. College English Education Center, Nanfang College, Guangzhou, China

    Yu Han

  2. School of Education, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Xiaoyan Ji

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Han, Y., Ji, X. (2022). Contradictions in Making 中文 (Zhōngwén/Chinese) Learnable. In: Postmonolingual Transnational Chinese Education. Palgrave Studies in Teaching and Learning Chinese. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15153-8_4

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