A Transdisciplinary Approach to Chinese and Japanese Language Teaching: Collaborative Pedagogy Across Languages, Disciplines, Communities, and Borders

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A Transdisciplinary Approach to Chinese and Japanese Language Teaching illustrates how the transdisciplinary approach to second language acquisition (SLA) centers around collaboration to provide a learning-conducive environment with rich semiotic resources for second/foreign language learners. The volume consists of 14 chapters from leading experts in SLA and Chinese and Japanese language educators from Canada, China, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America. As a first work of its kind, the contributions feature both theoretical interpretations of transdisciplinary concepts that can apply to Chinese/Japanese as a second language learning and case studies showcasing how college-level Chinese and Japanese language educators design and implement pedagogical projects in collaboration with partners across languages, disciplines, communities, and borders by adopting a transdisciplinary perspective to analyze students’ learning outcomes. This book will benefit researchers, administrators, educators, and teacher educators in higher education with an interest in world language education and interdisciplinary and project-based teaching. Cover Half Title Title Copyright Contents List of figures List of tables About the contributors Acknowledgements 1 Introduction: collaborative Chinese and Japanese language teaching from a transdisciplinary perspective Section 1 Theoretical foundations and empirical evidence for a transdisciplinary approach to Chinese/Japanese language teaching 2 Teaching and learning of East Asian languages in the era of “trans-” 3 Translanguaging and co-learning at the interface of language and culture Section 2 Across disciplines: language and non-language faculty collaboration 4 Translanguaging with food and ethics: translating languages, enhancing agencies, and expanding horizons 5 Teaching Chinese through classic literature: a cross-disciplinary collaboration 6 Promoting translingual and transcultural literacies in a collaborative content-based Japanese classroom: audiovisual translation as pedagogy 7 Wellbeing and Chinese language study: a case of cross-disciplinary teaching Section 3 Across communities: language and community partner collaboration 8 Negotiating C2 expectation and Third-Space personae in transdisciplinary L2 learning: collaboration with Chinese professionals in advanced Chinese language curricula 9 Internships at Japanese orphanages: a case study of a first-year Japanese language student’s growth Section 4 Across languages: Chinese-Japanese and multi-language collaboration 10 An experiment of cross-language and cross-disciplinary collaboration: integrating Xu Bing’s text-based arts into Chinese and Japanese classrooms 11 Cross-language and cross-disciplinary collaborations in a Mandarin CLAC course Section 5 Across borders: international collaboration 12 The United States-Japan online magazine project: international telecollaborations as translanguaging spaces 13 Transcending borders and limitations with digitally enhanced pedagogy: language Learning-focused COIL (LLC) for Japanese learners and prospective teachers 14 Coda Index