Teaching Chinese Language for Asia Literacy: Chinese Teachers’ Experiences Teaching Australian Students (original) (raw)

Asia Literacy in a Global World, 2018

Abstract

Despite the increasing focus on Asia in Australian education, little consideration has been given to the experiences of Asian language teachers teaching in low culturally diverse schools. This paper centres on the experiences of two Chinese language teachers working in a low culturally diverse private school in South Australia. Using their narratives, we have shown how experiences of teaching an Asian language in the context of Asia literacy as a cross-curriculum priority are shaped by contradictions and dilemmas in which experiences of diversity now take place in emergent spaces, associated with dynamic and intersecting cultural and symbolic capital, that transcend national borders. We suggest that this has key implications for thinking about the educational practice of Asia literacy through Asian language teaching.

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