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Chinese Second Language Teacher Education And Teacher Self-Development, Xiaoping Gao
Chinese Second Language Teacher Education And Teacher Self-Development, Xiaoping Gao
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This paper addresses three key components in Chinese Second Language Teacher Education: the history, development and objectives of the field, the curricula of teacher education, and student teachers' self -reflection in teaching practices and its role in teacher self -development. Given the changes in the objectives and contexts of teaching Chinese as a second language. it emphasizes that student teachers' self - reflection in supervised teaching practice is central to realize teachers' self -development and to meet the requirement of International Standards for Chinese Language Teacher.