Teaching Chinese, Japanese, and Korean heritage language students curriculum needs, materials, and assessment
This book contributes to building the research knowledge that language teaching professionals need in developing curriculum for the large population of East Asian heritage students (including Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) in countries like the United States, Canada, and Australia, where speakers of...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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©2008
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| Series: | ESL & applied linguistics professional series
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| Summary: | This book contributes to building the research knowledge that language teaching professionals need in developing curriculum for the large population of East Asian heritage students (including Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) in countries like the United States, Canada, and Australia, where speakers of East Asian languages are among the fastest growing populations. Heritage learners are defined as those who initially acquired certain levels of linguistic and cultural competence in a non-dominant language mainly through interaction with foreign-born parents and other family members at home. Providing theoretical and practical information about heritage-language instruction in terms of curriculum design, learner needs, materials development, and assessment procedures, the goal of this book is not only to promote research about heritage students in East Asian languages but also to improve the teaching of these students in various educational settings and all over the world, especially in English speaking countries. |
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| Physical Description: | xvi., 346 pages illustrations 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780805858778 (hbk) 9780805858785 (pbk) 0805858776 (hbk) 0805858784 (pbk) |