Reciprocal Learning between Canada and China in Language and Culture Education

This book engages Canadian and Chinese language educators, graduate students, pre-service teachers, school principals and teachers in an enhanced reciprocal learning process by collaboratively reflecting on and writing up the school-based language curriculum projects and school-based language teachers’ professional development activities in Canada-China sister schools. The objective is to develop a knowledge base for generating positive, reciprocal, practitioner knowledge and methods to improve language teaching effectiveness in either context. In this way, it contributes to a public discussion of the reciprocal educational impacts on the knowledge-based society in Canada and China. Shijing Xu is Canada Research Chair and Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Windsor, Canada. Luxin Yang is Professor of Applied Linguistics at the National Research Centre for Foreign Language Education and Associate Dean of School of English and International Studies at Beijing Foreign Studies University, China. Yuhan Deng is a PhD candidate in the Faculty of Education at the University of Windsor, Canada. Shuai Fu is Lecturer in the Foreign Language Department of Beijing Union University, China.