英文摘要 |
This study investigates how to cultivate student teachers who possess the qualities of inter-cultural and inter-linguistic sensitivities. Chinese language teachers usually have students from multi-cultural backgrounds. It is very important for these teachers to have inter-cultural and inter-linguistic knowledge and to be able to solve problems that relate to culture and language issues. Thus, the teachers will be able to guide the students properly to learn the target language. How do we cultivate the student teachers to have these abilities? In the field of Teaching Chinese as a Second Language, pedagogical grammar especially takes inter-cultural and inter-linguistic issues seriously. It provides methods for teachers to analyze languages and cultures in order to arrange the right order for students to acquire the target language. However, it takes more fundamental training before the student teachers have the ability to analyze languages and cultures, as well as to have both inter-cultural and inter-linguistic knowledge to face each language and culture issue in class.What would be the fundamental training for the student teachers? This study, inspired by Tang (2004) and Davis (2005) from their study on language and culture respectively, intends to help the Chinese language student teachers develop their self awareness by observing their own language and culture. This will help them improve their language and culture sensitivity and problem solving ability.The study is two-fold. One takes the linguistic knowledge aspect, and the other the culture aspect. For the linguistic aspect, this study has the student teachers observe their own Chinese linguistic knowledge, and describe the rules of the language; further, the student teachers will make comparisons between Chinese and other languages to learn the similarities and differences among languages. On the aspect of culture, the study develops the student teachers’ awareness toward their own culture by helping them observe and analyze their daily activities and behaviors, and then extend their observation toward observing inter-personal activities regarding verbal and non-verbal expressions. By helping the student teachers become aware of their own linguistic and cultural abilities, this study enables the student teachers of Chinese language to develop their sensitivity toward inter-linguistic and inter-cultural issues and enhance their teaching ability. |