Mandarin Chinese Dual Language Immersion Programs / Ko-Yin Sung, Hsiao-Mei Tsai.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sung, Ko-Yin, Author.

Tsai, Hsiao-Mei, Author.

Series:

Bilingual education and bilingualism ; 119.

Bilingual Education & Bilingualism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mandarin dialects--Study and teaching--Immersion method.

Mandarin dialects.

Chinese language--Study and teaching--Immersion method.

Chinese language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (210 pages).

Place of Publication:

Blue Ridge Summit, PA : Multilingual Matters, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This book discusses multiple aspects of Chinese dual language immersion (DLI) programs, with a focus on the controversial Utah model. The first part of the book focuses on the parents, teachers, and school administrators. It looks at the perceptions of the three groups toward the Utah model, how they build a supportive DLI classroom with an emphasis on teacher–teacher and teacher–parent communication, and how the teachers position themselves in teaching through their teacher identities. The second part of the book emphasizes classroom research and explores teaching and learning strategies, corrective feedback and learner uptake and repair, translanguaging in authentic teacher–student interaction, and Chinese-character teaching. As the first DLI book to include a non-alphabetical language, Chinese, it addresses the need for more research on DLI programs of languages other than Spanish. The book will benefit not only Chinese DLI educators and administrators in the US, but will also offer some useful suggestions and thoughts to educators and administrators of similar programs worldwide.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

1. Introduction

2. Benefits, Challenges and Suggestions: Voices From Teachers and Administrators

3. Benefits, Challenges and Suggestions: Voices From Parents

4. Exploring Chinese DLI Teachers’ Identities

5. Creating an Effective and Supportive Dual Language Classroom

6. Language Teaching and Learning Strategies Employed in a First-Year Chinese Dual Language Immersion Classroom

7. Applying the Concept of Chunking in Teaching and Learning Chinese Characters

8. Oral Interactions Between Teacher and Students: Corrective Feedback, Learner-Uptake and Learner-Repair

9. Translanguaging: A Documentation of How Emergent Bilinguals Use Translanguaging in Their Daily Communication

10. Conclusion

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 07. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

9781788923965

1788923960

9781788923972

1788923979

OCLC:

1083677304