Teaching Chinese as an International Language

Bilingual and bicultural scholar Yeng-Seng Goh offers the first in-depth English language analysis of global Chinese exploring the spread of Chinese beyond China and its emergence as a global language. Approaching the topic from a Singapore perspective Goh uses this fascinating language ecosystem with its unique bilingual language policy as a case study for Chinese language learning. Offering clear insights into the pedagogy of teaching Chinese as an international language (TCIL) this book covers a range of important topics such as the use of English in the teaching of Chinese the teaching of Chinese by non-native teachers information and communications technology in L2 learning and teaching and the progressive testing of receptive skills. In doing so it presents a new integrative approach to the compilation of Chinese learner''s dictionaries an innovative bilingual hybrid model for training TCIL teachers and a solid theoretical framework for Masters of Arts programmes in TCIL.