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Code choice in the Chinese as a foreign language classroom

✍ Scribed by Wang Danping, Kirkpatrick Andy.

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// Multilingual Education. 2012, 2 (3). P.1-24

The large influx of Chinese language learners into the People’s Republic of China from different countries shapes the Chinese as a foreign language classroom as a multilingual and multinational domain. However, how Chinese language teachers perceive their choice of codes for teaching and communicating with international Chinese language learners remains an under-researched area. To investigate Chinese language teachers’ language beliefs toward code choice in teaching Chinese as a foreign language, 24 Chinese language teachers from four universities in Beijing were invited to participate in this study. Findings indicated that although Chinese language teachers endeavored to abide by a Chinese-only principle, English was regularly and strategically employed as an international lingua franca (English as a lingua franca, ELF) for explanatory, managerial and interactive functions. The study concluded by proposing an ELF pedagogy for Chinese language teachers to consider in increasingly multilingual classrooms.

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Языки и языкознание;Лингвистика;Прикладная лингвистика;Лингводидактика

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