Teaching Chinese to International Students in China: Political Rhetoric and Ground Realities

Autor/inn/en	Wang, Weihong; Curdt-Christiansen, Xiao Lan
Titel	Teaching Chinese to International Students in China: Political Rhetoric and Ground Realities
Quelle	In: Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 25 (2016) 5-6, S.723-734 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Curdt-Christiansen, Xiao Lan)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0119-5646
DOI	10.1007/s40299-016-0316-z
Schlagwörter	Chinese; Foreign Students; Second Language Learning; Second Language Instruction; Foreign Countries; Teaching Methods; Language of Instruction; Higher Education; Program Descriptions; Policy Analysis; Educational Policy; Teacher Attitudes; Student Attitudes; College Faculty; International Education; Government School Relationship; Language Role; English (Second Language); Conflict; Politics of Education; College Students; China + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? China; Chinesen; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Ausland; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Teaching language; Unterrichtssprache; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Politikfeldanalyse; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Lehrerverhalten; Schülerverhalten; Fakultät; Internationale Erziehung; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Konflikt; Educational policy; Collegestudent
Abstract	This paper presents an on-going study of the enactment of The International Promotion of Chinese Policy (Chinese characters omitted). It explores how Chinese teaching and learning take place in a Chinese university under the Study in China Programme which allows international students, after a period of intensive Chinese language learning, to transfer to academic courses taught in Chinese for Chinese students at the tertiary level. This programme has expanded in recent years in response to the government's goal to enhance China's soft power globally. By studying policy documents, engaging in conversations with students and teachers and observing classrooms, our study reveals that there are conflicting interests of social actors at national, institutional and individual levels, causing considerable conflicts and tensions in three aspects: (1) the divergent goals of internationalisation between the government and the higher education institution; (2) the imperative need of academic Chinese for subject learning and the actual offer of Chinese for everyday communication and (3) the competing role of English versus Chinese as a lingua franca for international students in the university setting. These conflicts make it difficult for international students to benefit from the subject courses, and for universities to implement successful language programmes for international students, and this renders the political objective of this programme difficult to achieve. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01