Proposed Topic:
“Reciprocity between Classroom Process and Pedagogical Competence: A Crucial Objective to Achieve for Chinese Language Teacher Training”
Presenter: Jianguo Ji
( 姬 建 国 )
Affiliation: The City University of
New York
Abstract:
Effective teaching of Chinese as a
foreign language demands the capacity on the part of teachers to apply a
holistic view of foreign language learning, and a processed-oriented approach
to language teaching, to the moment-to-moment instructional operations. This
entails a necessary and crucial objective for teacher preparation, i.e. the
development of the trainee’s pedagogical capacity, which is to be characterized
by two interrelated components of a FL teacher’s pedagogical competence: (1)
the ability to incorporate transcultural consciousness into their prospective
instructions; (2) the ability to
tailor their conceptualization of FLT methodology to the dynamic interactions
in the classroom. This implies a need for many teacher education programs to
make necessary adjustments in program construction, curriculum/syllabus
development, instructional design, and specific procedures and tasks of the
training process.
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