Language Curriculum Innovation in a Chinese Secondary School A Study
This book offers a comprehensive overview of the changes in foreign language teachers' cognition and practices during a four-year innovation project at a Chinese secondary school, and explores the factors that influenced the trajectory of those changes. I
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Language Curriculum Innovation in a Chinese Secondary School A Study of Teacher Cognition and Classroom Practices
Language Curriculum Innovation in a Chinese Secondary School
Yan Zhu
Language Curriculum Innovation in a Chinese Secondary School A Study of Teacher Cognition and Classroom Practices
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Yan Zhu College of Foreign Languages and Literature Fudan University Shanghai China
ISBN 978-981-10-7238-3 ISBN 978-981-10-7239-0 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7239-0
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Acknowledgements
Despite all the hardships encountered along the way, the Danyang Project has been a productive and rewarding learning experience. I would like to take this chance to express my gratitude to all those people who so generously supported my Ph.D. research project, on which this book is based. First and foremost, my deepest gratitude goes to Prof. Dingfang Shu, for all his warm encouragement, valuable advice, and unconditional support, which made the completion of this book possible. Particularly, I would like to extend my sincere thanks to Prof. Shu for initiating the Danyang Project and pushing it forward despite all the unexpected difficulties. Without this project, I could have never had the chance to go beyond the university–school boundary and witness the numerous deeply entrenched problems in Chinese secondary classrooms. It is these problems, I believe, that will continue to motivate my research as my career unfolds. I am also deeply grateful to Prof. Rod Ellis, for his enlightening an
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