Bilingual Teachers’ Contextualization in Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language in Australian Schools

Xufeng Ling, Jinghe Han () and Yue Ma
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Xufeng Ling: School of Foreign Languages, Huizhou University, Huizhou 516001, China
Jinghe Han: Centre for Educational Research, Western Sydney University, Penrith, NSW 2751, Australia
Yue Ma: School of Foreign Languages, Huizhou University, Huizhou 516001, China

Sustainability, 2023, vol. 15, issue 6, 1-14

Abstract: This research focuses on the practice of contextualization in teaching Chinese as a foreign language among a cohort of bilingual language teacher-researchers. It aims to extend the prevalent emphasis in the current literature that acknowledges the role of context in language education; however, these research studies primarily give voice to linguistic contexts or relegates context into a static physical space such as ‘environment’. This research is grounded in a social constructionism perspective whereby context is regarded as a dynamic relation-building process, or more accurately, a contextualizing process, enabled through various sociocultural activities. The data reveal that the teacher-researchers employed various forms of contextualization in teaching and linked these to particular teaching content through identifiable, purposeful activities, resulting in a variety of students’ responses. This research provides an evidence-based understanding of contextualization in CFL teaching for a more sustainable second language education.

Keywords: context; contextualization; contextuality; social constructionism; Chinese as a foreign language (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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