Chinese Language Education in the United States

“The timely and insightful volume under review here – the first collection of its kind – offers original, cross-disciplinary and indepth discussions of a wide range of critical issues related to CLE in the United States and beyond, from pedagogical, historical, political, economic, linguistic and sociocultural perspectives. … It is a comprehensive and enlightening reference tool for teachers, scholars, policy-makers and students, and it suggests promising future research directions.” (Hong Diao, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, tandfonline.com, August, 2017)

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Historical Overview of Chinese Language Education for Speakers of Other Languages in China and the United States.- 3. Chinese Government Policies and Initiatives on the International Popularization of Chinese: An Economics of Language Perspective.- 4. U.S. Policies and Initiatives for CFL Education.- 5. Understanding Chinese as a Foreign Language from the Perspective of Second Language Acquisition 6. Medium-of-Instruction Policy and Practices in CSL Classrooms.- 7. Technology in CFL Education.- 8. Chinese as a Foreign Language in K-12 Education.- 9. CFL Education at the College Level.- 10. The Teaching of Chinese to Heritage Language Learners at the Post-Secondary Level.- 11. Practice and Research on Chinese Language Learning in Study Abroad Contexts.- 12. Chinese Language Teachers’ Pedagogical Adjustment and Classroom Management in Cross-cultural Contexts.- 13. CFL Teacher Preparation and Development.