CRCLLE 2019 Research Roundtable
2019 Chinese Language Education Research Roundtable
RESEARCHING EXPERIENCES OF TRANSNATIONAL CHINESE LANGUAGE LEARNING AND CURRICULAR INNOVATION (Dec. 2019)
Speaker | Affiliation | Topic |
Patsy Duff (organizer)
Danping Wang Adam Sheard |
UBC
Univ Auckland, NZ UBC |
CRCLLE history & work with Duanduan, Raymond & Liam on Chinese as a heritage language; pop culture; SLA
YouTube intro to research in NZ on Chinese SLA Trial IT program/components through ARTS-ISIT for teaching languages (including Chinese) |
Duanduan Li | Asian Studies | Chinese language curriculum and instruction: Challenges and opportunities |
Qian Wang | Asian Studies | Creating a local learning community to reinvigorate the Chinese Language Program |
Xiaowen Xu | Asian Studies | Integrating academic writing training into course design for advanced Chinese language courses in the field of literature |
Hsiang-ning (Sunnie) Wang | Asian Studies | Exploring identity through community-based learning in beginner-level heritage language courses |
Raymond Pai | LLED & Asian Studies | Pop culture in Chinese language pedagogy; learning/teaching Cantonese as an additional/heritage language |
Zoe Lam | Asian Studies | Chinatown as a site for place-based education of Cantonese language and culture |
Guofang Li | LLED | Impact of home and school factors on early Chinese heritage language learning (SSHRC Insight Grant Research) |
Liam Doherty | LLED | Online language mentoring of adult learners in L2 Chinese context: What we can learn from mentors’ approaches to pedagogy |
Klara Abdi | LLED | Transnational Canada ßàChina migration and (language) education: Challenges for families (especially mothers) |
Dmitri Detwyler | LLED | 1. Investigating effects of identities and social capital in own Mandarin literacy learning career in Taiwan, the US, and Canada for edited volume chapter
2. Studying professional knowledge and interaction among language teachers (including Chinese) for PhD study |
Lewis Cheng | LLED | Using historical documents to teach Chinese language and culture |
Ai Mizuta | LLED | Comparison between Chinese Canadian parents of different generations of immigration regarding their investment and access to their children’s Chinese language education. |
Zhuo Sun | LLED | Investigating transnational roots for CHL teachers’ beliefs and classroom practices in a community language school (doctoral dissertation research) |
UBC Conference on “Cantonese Worlds” – June 2018
Congratulations to UBC PhD student, Raymond Pai, and his colleagues in Asian Studies (and History, Education, etc.) for organizing an exciting and very successful series of events related to “Cantonese Worlds”: language, literacies, education, literatures, and performing arts! (June 2018)
PhD & MA Theses on Chinese Language Education/Socialization (last 5 yrs)
NOTE: all UBC dissertations/theses can be downloaded from our UBC repository: cIRcle https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections?topic=Theses%2520and%2520Dissertations
- Liam Doherty (in progress).
- Ai Mizuta (2017). PhD Dissertation.
- Memories of language lost and learned: Parents and the shaping of Chinese as a heritage language in Canada.
- Fiona Bewley (2018). MA Thesis.
- Culture and language ideology in Chinese foreign language textbooks: A thematic analysis.
- Li Shuang (2018). MA Thesis.
- Motivation of Mandarin speakers learning Cantonese in a transnational context: multilingualism and investment.
- Sumin Fang (2015). MA Thesis.
- Engagement with Chinese Popular Culture in Adult Mandarin Language Learning and Socialization.
Recent CRCLLE Publications on “Chinese” as a Heritage Language
Duff, P., & Doherty, L. (2019). Learning “Chinese” as heritage language: Challenges, issues, and ways forward. In C-R. Huang, Z. Jing- Schmidt, & B. Meisterernst (Eds.), Routledge handbook of Chinese applied linguistics. New York: Routledge.
Fang, S., & Duff, P. (2018). Constructing identities and negotiating ideologies with Chinese popular culture in adult Mandarin learning. Global Chinese, 4(1), 37-61.
Duff, P., & Doherty, L. (2018). Chinese second language socialization. In C. Ke (Ed.), The Routledge handbook of Chinese second language acquisition (pp. 82-99). New York: Routledge.
Li, D., & Duff, P. (2018). Learning Chinese as a heritage language in postsecondary contexts. In C. Ke (Ed.), The Routledge handbook of Chinese second language acquisition (pp. 318-335). New York: Routledge.
Duff, P. (2017). Commentary: Motivation for learning languages other than English in an English-dominant world. Modern Language Journal. 103(3), 597-607.
Duff, P., Liu, Y., & Li, D. (2017). Chinese heritage language learning: Negotiating identities, ideologies, and institutionalization. In O. Kagan, M. Carreira, & C. Chik (Eds.), Routledge handbook on heritage language education (pp. 409-422). New York: Routledge.
Duff, P., & Becker-Zayas, A. (2017). Demographics and heritage languages in Canada: Policies, patterns, and prospects. In O. Kagan, M. Carreira, & C. Chik (Eds.), Routledge handbook on heritage language education (pp. 57-67). New York, NY: Routledge.
Chinese Language Learning and Pop Culture
Pai, R., & Duff, P. (2021). Pop culture in teaching Chinese as an additional language: Theory, research, and practice. In V. Werner & F. Tegge (Eds.), Pop culture in language education: Theory, research, practice. New York: Routledge.
Fang, S., & Duff, P. (2018). Constructing identities and negotiating ideologies with Chinese popular culture in adult Mandarin learning. Global Chinese, 4(1), 37-61.
“Learning Chinese: Linguistic, Sociocultural, and Narrative Perspectives”
CRCLLE RESEARCH COLLABORATION
Duff, Anderson, Ilnyckyj, VanGaya, Wang & Yates. (2013). Learning Chinese: Linguistic, sociocultural, and narrative perspectives. Boston/Berlin: Springer.
CRCLLE Language Sciences Grant Fall 2016
“Negotiating changing Chinese language, literacy and other semiotic practices in the transnational online information economy”
Investigators: Patricia (Patsy) Duff, Duanduan Li, Liam Doherty
LLED/CRCLLE research site
Chinese Textbooks by Duanduan Li & Irene Liu (2016)
Reading into a New China (Volumes 1 & 2, 2016) – Cheng & Tsui
Book Covers (Vol. 1 & 2) and Sample Lessons (1 & 4)
CRCLLE Research Roundtable (Sept. 2016)
Fall 2016 Research Roundtable
- Dr. Patsy Duff (Language & Literacy Education [LLED]) – Chinese language socialization
- Dr. Ryuko Kubota (LLED) – language use in transnational workplaces
- Dr. Duanduan Li (Asian Studies) functional grammar and textbook development
- Dr. Huamei Han (Simon Fraser University) – African migrant workers’ Chinese learning
- Dr. Hongxia Shan (Educational Studies) – language, mobility, and labour market integration
- Dr. Guofang Li (LLED) – CRC activities – immigrant children’s bilingual/biliteracy development
- Dr. Qian Wang (UBC Asian Studies) – Chinese literacy, technologies, and education
- UBC Graduate Students (Liam Doherty, Ai Mizuta, and others) – Chinese in media, society, diaspora, learning