Overview
This volume explores best practice in implementing the Performed Culture Approach (PCA) in teaching Chinese as a foreign language (CFL). Offering a range of chapters which 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, and especially those with interest in incorporating performance into foreign language curriculums with the goal of integrating language and culture.
- | Author: Jianfen Wang|Jia
- | Publisher: Routledge
- | Publication Date: Sep 02, 2022
- | Number of Pages: 188 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Hardcover
- | ISBN-10: 1032057742
- | ISBN-13: 9781032057743
