Teaching Chinese By Culture and TV Drama

This book integrates culture and authenticity into Chinese classroom practice through exploring the potential of contemporary TV drama as teaching and learning materials for intercultural Chinese language teaching and learning.

List of contents

Acknowledgements

1. Introduction: Moving beyond traditions and traditional teaching of TCFL


2. Theoretical understanding of culture, language and culture, intercultural communicative competence


3. Teaching Chinese culture


4. Contemporary TV drama as authentic materials


5. Integrating an intercultural focus


6. Combing culture and language


7. Refreshing TCFL pedagogy

Index

About the author

Lingfen Zhang has obtained her PhD in education from The University of Melbourne in Australia, and her MA in Chinese linguistics from the School of Chinese as a Second Language at Peking University in China. She has gained teaching experience at several Chinese and Australian institutions including Peking University, The University of Melbourne, and The University of Queensland. She has a strong research interest in intercultural communication and culture teaching in Chinese as foreign language education.

Summary

This book integrates culture and authenticity into Chinese classroom practice through exploring the potential of contemporary TV drama as teaching and learning materials for intercultural Chinese language teaching and learning.

Product details

• Authors: Lingfen Zhang
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.01.2024
• EAN: 9780367680817
• ISBN: 978-0-367-68081-7
• No. of pages: 184
• Series: Routledge Studies in Chinese as a Foreign Language
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; JUVENILE NONFICTION / Language Arts / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Study & Teaching, FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Chinese, Chinese, Teaching of a specific subject, Language teaching and learning, Language teaching & learning (other than ELT), Educational: Languages other than English, Educational: Language, literature and literacy, EDUCATION / Teaching / Subjects / General