The third space and Chinese language pedagogy : negotiating intentions and expectations in another culture

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    • Zhang, Xin (Linguist)
    • Jian, Xiaobin

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The third space and Chinese language pedagogy : negotiating intentions and expectations in another culture

edited by Xin Zhang and Xiaobin Jian

Routledge, 2021

  • : pbk

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The 3rd space and Chinese language pedagogy : negotiating intentions and expectations in another culture

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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The Third Space and Chinese Language Pedagogy presents the Third Space as a new frame through which foreign language pedagogy is conceptualized as a pedagogy of negotiating intentions and expectations in another culture. The field of Chinese as a foreign language (CFL) in the past decades has been expanding rapidly at the beginning and intermediate levels, yet it is lacking in scholarship on the true advanced level both in theory building and research-supported curriculum and material development. This book argues that it is time for CFL to go beyond merely satisfying the desire of gazing at the other, whether it is curiosity about the other or superiority over the other, to focusing on learning to work with the other. It reimagines the field as co-constructing a transcultural Third Space where learners are becoming experts in negotiating intentions and expectations in another culture. It presents a range of research-based CFL pedagogical scholarship and practices especially relevant to the advanced level and to the goal of enabling learners to go past fans or critics to become actors/players in the game of cross-lingual and intercultural cooperation.

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Table of contents List of Figures List of Tables Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: Third Space and Chinese language pedagogy: possibilities of and paths to cross-lingual and cross-cultural cooperation Xin Zhang and Xiaobin Jian CHAPTER 1 Negotiating a co-constructed multilingual and transcultural Third Space Xiaobin Jian CHAPTER 2 Native Speaker Effects, C2 Receptivity of Learner, and Co-construction of Third-Space Personae: A Pedagogy of Target Culture Expectation Xin Zhang CHAPTER 3 Negotiating Intentions in Intercultural Conversational Interactions: Excusing Oneself from a Family Gathering Bing Mu CHAPTER 4 Striving for the Third Space: An American Professional's Experiences in Chinese Workplaces Zhini Zeng CHAPTER 5 Establishing Domain Expertise in the Third Space: Constructing Language Learning Motivation to Perform Beyond Proficiency Junqing (Jessie) Jia CHAPTER 6 Online Forum as Third Space? CFL learners' Experiences on an Online Knowledge-sharing community Zhini Zeng CHAPTER 7 Why We Perform Galal Walker Index

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