Shen Chen
List of John Benjamins publications in which Shen Chen is involved.
Articles
2014 Chapter 9. Chinese language teaching in Australia Learning Chinese in Diasporic Communities: Many pathways to being Chinese, Curdt-Christiansen, Xiao Lan and Andy Hancock (eds.), pp. 181–200 | Article
Located in the Asian-Pacific region, Australia is a unique example an English speaking country which has progressive language policies to promote Asian languages, Chinese in particular. History has witnessed three stages of development of Chinese language teaching. In the first stage, Chinese… read more
1995 Cultural components in the teaching of Asian languages The Hard Work–Entertainment Continuum: Teaching Asian languages in Australia, Kirkpatrick, Andy, Yong Zhong and Helen Kirkpatrick (eds.), pp. 153–168 | Article
The importance of understanding target cultures is an increasingly acknowledged aspect in the teaching of Asian languages. Yet how to incorporate the teaching of cultures with languages remains controversial. This paper will discuss a number of main paradigms of teaching target culture employed in… read more