Third Space and Chinese Language Pedagogy

Name: Third Space and Chinese Language Pedagogy
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

The Third Space and Chinese Language PedagogyNegotiating Intentions and Expectations in Another Culture\nAuthor(s): Xin Zhang, Xiaobin Jian\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367364281, 978-0367364281\nSynopsis\nThe Third Space and Chinese Language Pedagogy presents the Third Space as a new frame through which foreign language pedagogy is conceptualized as a pedagogy of negotiating intentions and expectations in another culture. \n\nThe field of Chinese as a foreign language (CFL) in the past decades has been expanding rapidly at the beginning and intermediate levels, yet it is lacking in scholarship on the true advanced level both in theory building and research-supported curriculum and material development. This book argues that it is time for CFL to go beyond merely satisfying the desire of gazing at the other, whether it is curiosity about the other or superiority over the other, to focusing on learning to wor.