This volume explores best practices in implementing the Performed Culture Approach (PCA) in teaching Chinese as a foreign language (CFL).
Offering a range of chapters that demonstrate how PCA has been successfully applied to curriculum, instructional design, and assessment in CFL programs and classrooms at various levels, this text shows how PCA’s culture-focused paradigm differs fundamentally from the general communicative language teaching (CLT) framework and highlights how it can inspire innovative methods to better support learners’ ability to navigate target culture and overcome communication barriers. Additional applications of PCA in the development of learner identity, intercultural competence, autonomy, and motivation are also considered.
Bridging theoretical innovations and the practice of curriculum design and implementation, this work will be of value to researchers, teacher trainers, and graduate students interested in Chinese teaching and learning, especially those with an interest in incorporating performance into foreign language curriculums with the goal of integrating language and culture.
Author(s): Jianfen Wang, Junqing (Jessie) Jia
Series: Routledge Research in Language Education
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 188
City: New York
Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of Editors and Contributors
Foreword by Galal Walker
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Performed culture as a holistic, embodied approach to teaching Chinese as a foreign language
PART I: Performed culture in goal setting
1. Developing a PCA-informed learning spiral for a beginner-level STARTALK Chinese program
2. Meaningful local immersion: Strategies to help CFL learners perform the target culture locally
3. Connecting international students with the local community through a PCA-informed orientation program
PART II: Performed culture in assessment
4. Sustaining a newly established PCA-based CFL program: The role of formative assessment and grading
5. Implementing Dynamic Assessment in PCA-based second-year Chinese language courses
6. Designing and implementing the PCA prochievement oral interview
PART III: Performed culture in material development
7. Adapting and supplementing Integrated Chinese for PCA-informed instruction
8. Localizing language learning for beginner-level CFL curricula
PART IV: Performed culture in instructional design
9. Performing transportation in the lower-level CFL classroom
10. Designing a performance-based curriculum for beginning business Chinese to enhance students’ intercultural competence
11. Maximize learners’ engagement with a Chinese novel through podcasting and book club discussion
12. Using Performed Culture Approach in an online Chinese language program
Index
