Learning and teaching Chinese as a foreign language: A scoping review

J Chan, R Woore, L Molway, T Mutton - Review of Education, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Despite the growth of research in learning and teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language
(CFL), no scoping review of research published in international, anglophone journals has …

The effects of genre on the syntactic complexity of argumentative and expository writing by Chinese EFL learners

L Pu, R Heng, C Cao - Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Genre researchers have found that writing in different genres involves different cognitive
task loads and requires different linguistic demands. Generally speaking, narratives involve …

Critical Chinese as an Additional Language education in Australia: A journey to voices, courage and hope

W Xu, J Knijnik - British Educational Research Journal, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
This article addresses key topics of Chinese as an Additional Language (CAL) education
and classroom pedagogical practices. It reports on a 3‐year ethnographic study within …

Working-class girls' construction of learner identities and aspirations through engagement in Chinese language education in Australia

W Xu, G Stahl - Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Despite suspicions concerning the global expansion of Chinese as a Foreign Language
(CFL) education, the teaching of Chinese is often a mainstay within global citizenship and …

Teaching Chinese with Chinese characteristics:'difficult'knowledge, discomforting pedagogies and student engagement

W Xu, G Stahl - Pedagogy, Culture & Society, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The teaching and learning of Chinese remains a fragile undertaking across all stages of
Australian schooling. This paper reports on a practitioner inquiry into pedagogic practices …

[图书][B] Pedagogic practices, student engagement and equity in Chinese as a Foreign Language education: In Australia and beyond

W Xu - 2021 - taylorfrancis.com
This book explores and analyses Chinese as a Foreign Language (CFL) pedagogic
practices and learning experiences within a cohort of low socio-economic status students …

Dominic's story: The “pedagogy of discomfort” and learner identity in flux

W Xu - Journal of Language, Identity & Education, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
The “boy turn” in research on gender and education has sought to understand how social
practices and schooling contribute to the process of orientation to particular identities. This …

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 …

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) …

Fostering affective engagement in Chinese language learning: A Bernsteinian account

W Xu - Language and education, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Affective engagement, as one facet of the engagement model, takes on the role of activating
other aspects to facilitate continued action in partaking in learning activities. Recognising the …