Multilingualism and Translanguaging in Chinese Language Classrooms

Danping Wang is a lecturer in Chinese in the School of Cultures, Languages and Linguistics, University of Auckland, New Zealand. Her research interests include multilingualism in education, classroom discourse and language policy. She was awarded Teaching Excellence Award and Sino-British Fellowship for her active and innovative contributions in Chinese language education.

• Chapter 1: Challenges of Teaching Chinese in Multilingual Contexts.- Chapter 2: Medium of Instruction Policies and Pedagogies in CSL Teaching.- Chapter 3: Classroom Language Research: Theories and Approaches.- Chapter 4: Translanguaging as Pedagogy: Practices and Perceptions.- Chapter 5: Researching classroom translanguaging.- Chapter 6: Conclusion.

“The author’s insightful analyses provide an important basis for us to re-engage in a discussion of how to design pedagogical choices to better reflect the multilingual realities in which Chinese language learning takes place.” (Linfei Yi and Wenhao Diao, Chinese as a Second Language, Vol. 55 (1), 2020)