Exploring Task-Based PBL in Chinese Teaching and Learning - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1443840742 ISBN 13: 9781443840743

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012

Synopsis

This book is based on educational research conducted by the Confucius Institute for Innovation and Learning at Aalborg University. It aims to bridge the gap between the traditional methods of teaching Chinese and the student-centred learning method in a non-native context such as Denmark. The establishment of a conceptual framework for Task-Based PBL offers an alternative approach that encourages innovative teaching practices and promotes research-based teaching in language education. Empirically, this book reports how teachers designed and conducted tasks, how the classroom setting was affected, and how students evaluated the course. Teachers’ reflections and recommendations are included, along with 20 ready-to-use tasks developed by our teachers to disseminate our experiences and methods with a broad range of teachers, students and educational contexts. This book suggests that the effectiveness of new teaching methods and the initiation of new subjects are contextual. Learning a foreign language (e.g. Chinese) is more than language acquisition; it is also understanding other cultures and participating in intercultural interaction and communication. Thus, education and learning (particularly a foreign language) is related to a broader social transformation in the process of globalisation and in the development towards a knowledge society.

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About the Author

Xiangyun Du, Ph.D., is a professor at the Department of Learning and Philosophy and director of the Confucius Institute for Innovation and Learning, Aalborg University. Her main research interest has been focused on innovative teaching and learning in education, particularly, problem-based and project-based learning methodology in diverse fields such as engineering education, medical education and language education, as well as in diverse social, cultural and educational contexts. She has also been engaged in substantial work on pedagogy development in teaching and learning for educational institutions in more than 10 countries. Professor Du has over 80 international publications in relevant research areas including monographs, international journal papers, edited books and book chapters, as well as conference contributions. Mads Jakob Kirkebaek is an assistant professor at the Department of Learning and Philosophy and academic coordinator at the Confucious Institute for Innovation and Learning, Aalborg University, Denmark. His research and publication focuses on China-Danish history, the development of teaching methods for teachers teaching Chinese as a foreign language in a Danish context, in particular, Chinese character teaching. His recent publications include Don't give up Chinese characters. Put them into tasks! On the use of tasks in teaching in Chinese characters (in Danish Laeg ikke tegnene pa hylden. Put dem i tasken! Om brug af tasks i undervisning i kinesiske skrifttegn), and Chinese Language in North Danish Schools - why (in Danish - Kinesisk i nordjyske skoler - hvorfor nu det?).

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1443840742
• ISBN 13: 9781443840743
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 205
• Editor: Xiangyun Du, Mads Jakob Kirkebęk