Chinese and Foreign Comparative Education

Author: Yan Ping
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Publish Date: 2006-07-01
Features: This book starts from the practical needs of the 21st-century basic education curriculum reform in China, taking the perspective and background of the international development of educational science. It compares the teaching objectives, textbooks, teaching methods, teaching evaluation, development of listening and speaking skills, reading instruction, writing skill development, cultivation of language learning ability, and the current status of professional development of language teachers in contemporary China with those in countries and regions around the world and the Chinese-speaking areas. Based on this comparison, it provides an in-depth elaboration on the direction, key points, and some fundamental issues of language education reform in China's basic education stage. This book will significantly benefit a wide range of language education theorists and practitioners in transforming their concepts, deeply understanding the new curriculum standards, fully implementing requirements, and improving the quality of language education and teaching. The book covers a broad range of countries and regions and offers comprehensive content, with no comparable monographs currently published in China. It represents a pioneering and groundbreaking work in filling a gap in the field. The book selects six countries and regions—mainland China, Hong Kong, the United States, Japan, Russia—as key research subjects, showcasing the status and development trends of language education in these regions around the world, focusing on the objectives, content, teaching methods, and evaluation approaches of language teaching.