Chinese as a Foreign Language (CFL) education and global citizenship: pedagogical encounters and endangered spaces of possibility

W Xu, G Stahl - Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Within the field of Chinese as a Foreign Language (CFL) teaching, there has been limited
engagement with Global Citizenship Education (GCE). The politicisation of CFL education in …

When East meets West: A practitioner inquiry of culturally responsive pedagogy in an Australian Chinese as a Foreign Language classroom

W Xu - International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
A nuanced description of “what”(the curriculum) and “how”(the pedagogy) to teach in
Chinese as a Foreign Language (CFL) education remains unexplored in existing …

Investigating children's affective geographies of Chinese language and culture education

W Xu, G Stahl, X Yang - Children's Geographies, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Educational research has been witnessing a 'spatial turn'and an 'affective turn'which have
informed studies on pedagogy and foreign/second language acquisition. Drawing on a …

The dialogical self and the multiplicity of I-positions: Experiences of becoming a teacher in the international practicum

W Xu, G Stahl, A Poole - Culture & Psychology, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
The internationalisation of education poses local challenges for training pre-service
teachers to navigate new and unfamiliar education contexts. For Chinese language teachers …

[HTML][HTML] Engaging disadvantaged students in a Chinese as a Foreign Language classroom: Bernstein's pedagogic discourse as a bridge

W Xu - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 2024 - nature.com
This study is part of practitioner inquiry undertaken in an underprivileged, low-achieving
primary school in Sydney, Australia, based in a Chinese as a Foreign Language (CFL) …

Understanding young high-achieving Chinese L2 learners' experiences: a case study in an Australian primary school

SA Zeng, J Ehrich - Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Chinese (Mandarin) is taught as an L2 in many Australian primary schools and is
considered challenging for English-speaking students to learn. This case study is an inquiry …

Routine Literacy Practices as a Cultural Agenda: Children's Experiences of Writing “Difficult” Chinese Characters in Australia

W Xu, G Stahl - Journal of Language, Identity & Education, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
This paper illustrates how spaces were created for children from culturally and linguistically
diverse backgrounds to emotionally engage in traditional Chinese literacy practices in a …

Chinese Language Ideologies Reflected in African Students' Discourses

W Xu - Linguistic Entrepreneurship in Sino-African Student …, 2024 - Springer
As the first of three data chapters, this chapter responds to the one of the primary themes
thrown up by the data itself—that is the Chinese language ideologies articulated and …

The Hierarchical Ordering of Languages and Language Ideologies

W Xu - Linguistic Entrepreneurship in Sino-African Student …, 2024 - Springer
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[HTML][HTML] Squaring the circle of alternative assessment in distance language education: A focus on the young learner

CN Giannikas - Languages, 2022 - mdpi.com
Because of the suspension of face-to-face (F2F) teaching activities caused by COVID-19,
practitioners are in limbo regarding the assessment of young learners (YLs) in the virtual …