Localising Chinese

Michael Singh is a professor in the Centre for Educational Research at Western Sydney University, Australia. His research focuses on post-monolingual education, translanguaging practices, the business of English-only medium instruction and research, internationalising doctoral pedagogy, and research-oriented work-integrated service-learning. His recently co-authored books include Pedagogies for Internationalising Research Education (2017), and Deschooling L’earning: Young Adults and the New Spirit of Capitalism (2014).Thị Hồng Nhung Nguyễn is a researcher in the School of Education at Western Sydney University, Australia. Nguyen’s research focuses on work-integrated learning, multilingual education, non-formal education and pedagogical frameworks. Her research has been published in Education Sciences, Modern University Education, and the edited collection Globalisation of Higher Education – Internationalised Education Research and Practice (2018).

• Chapter 1: Against Chinese as a Foreign Language.- Chapter 2: Post-monolingual Education for English-speaking Learners of Chinese.- Chapter 3: Researching Professional Learning in Language Education.- Chapter 4: Research Oriented School Engaged Teacher Education.- Chapter 5: Learning How to Use Chinese as a Local Language.- Chapter 6: Standards-based Professional Learning for Emergent Teachers.- Chapter 7: Localising Chinese Language Education through International Service Learning.- Chapter 8: Teaching Students through Localising Chinese.