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2006 Publications

Performed Culture: An Approach to East Asian Language Pedagogy

Pathways to Advanced Skills Series, vol. 11
isbn: 978-0-87415-307-1

Cost $26.95

This book is a general introduction to the performed culture approach, which trains students how to express themselves in a way that native speakers of the target culture feel appropriate in given situations. Target readership includes Chinese, Japanese, and Korean language teachers and graduate students.

Contents:
Acknowledgements;Preface;Introduction: The Need For A New Approach;
Chapter One: Performed Culture;
Chapter Two: Performing Culture: Performance-Based Curriculum;
Chapter Three: Speaking And Listening In Culture;
Chapter Four: Reading And Writing;
Chapter Five: A Performative Approach To Grammar, Vocabulary, And Discourse;
Chapter Six: Evaluating And Developing Materials For East Asian Languages;
Chapter Seven: Conclusion And Recommendations;
Bibliography; Works Cited;Appendices:
Index

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Evaluating Foreign Language Programs: Content, Context, Change

Pathways to Advanced Skills Series, vol. 10
isbn: 978-0-87415-356-9

Cost $13.95

This volume is designed as a practical handbook that provides guidelines for teams of evaluators investigating a department or language program or individual teachers or language program directors seeking to better understand the content and context of their programs or courses. Although the volume focuses on postsecondary foreign language programs, readers who teach at the secondary levels will be able to easily adapt the guidelines and procedures to their own contexts.

Contents
Acknowledgments; Introduction: Rational for Foreign Language Program Evaluation, Diane W. Birckbichler;
Part One: Framing the Evaluation

1. Content-Specific Approach to Program Evaluation, Kelly M. Costner;
2. Program Evaluation as Ethnography, Hiroaki Kawamura;
3. Communication: An Essential Tool in Program Evaluation, Yong Lang;

Part Two: Asking the Right Questions

4. Data-Collection Tools, Hiroaki Kawamura, Jean-Louis Dassier, and Kelly Costner;
5. Using Focus Groups Effectively, Jean-Louis Dassier, Hiroaki Kawamura, and Kelly Costner;
6. Testing for Proficiency, Jean-Louis Dassier;

Part Three: Reporting for Change

7. Effective Reporting, Yong Lang;
8. What Next? Planning for Action, Diane W. Birckbichler;

Author Index; Subject Index

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2005 Publications

Eat Shandong: From Personal Experience to a Pedagogy of a Second Culture

Pathways to Advanced Skills Series vol. 9
by Eric T. Shepherd
isbn: Old: 0-87415-351-4
New: 978-0-87415-351-4

Cost: $24.95
Language: Chinese

This book examines the "celebratory," ritualistic and pragmatic functions that Shandong yanxi, or banquets, serve in games of gaining social status in the contemporary Shandong social milieu. Yanxi are a highly ritualized form of performance in which enormous amounts of social capital, and energy are invested. Shandong yanxi are conducted to celebrate such important social occasions as weddings and engagements; festivals; birthdays; sending a friend or relative off on a journey, and welcoming a traveler home from a journey. Although highly festive in nature, these performances play a more serious and pragmatic role in Shandong society as a field of play for the game of gaining social status.

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2003 Publications

The Historical Evolution of Chinese Languages and Scripts

Pathways to Advanced Skills Series, vol. 8
by Zhou Youguang
isbn: Old: 0-87415-349-2
New: 978-0-87415-349-1

Cost: 26.95
This bilingual text by Zhou Youguang (in Chinese) with English translation by Zhang Liqing makes it easier for English speakers to gain advanced level skills in East Asian languages. It also exposes learners at or above intermediate skill levels to the vocabulary and discourses of academic disciplines and provides entries into discussions with oral and written presentations in these concentrations.

This concise treatment of a field is done by an excellent scholar with outstanding English translation. This book offers an overview of a particular situation regarding the development and problems concerning Chinese languages and scripts.

John DeFrancis recommends in the Foreword to this text: "This fact-filled but by no means dry compendium, the contents of which are easily accessible thanks to a good, detailed index, deserves a place on the bookshelf of anyone interested in the languages and scripts of China." This is an ideal book for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses dealing with Chinese languages and scripts.

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2002 Publications

Advances in Japanese Language Pedagogy

Pathways to Advanced Skills Series vol. 7
isbn: Old: 0-87415-345-X
New: 978-0-87415-345-3

Cost: $26.95
Essays designed to support informed classroom and curricular decisions. Dispels some of the misunderstandings about Japanese language instruction and introduces the intellectual inquires we are making in the field.

Contents: Forward, Ch.1, Development of Kanji Knowledge Among Adult JFL Learners.
Ch.2, Subvocalization in Reading Kanji: Can Japanese Text Be Comprehended Without It?
Ch. 3, Developmental Sequences.
Ch. 4, Japanese Second Language Acquisition in the Classroom.
Ch. 5, Reading as Socio-Cultural Performance.
Ch. 6, Can a Computer Tutor Detect Problems with Linked Sentences?
Ch. 7, The Logic of Japanese Language Practice.
Ch. 8, Automaticity and Its Implications for JFL Pedagogy.
Ch. 9, Japanese for Special Purposes: Teaching Japanese to Engineers and Scientists.
Ch. 10, Pedagogic Implications of Standards-based Education.
Ch. 11, The First Framework: Getting Down to Basics.
index, author index

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2001 Publications

Difficult Characters: Interdisciplinary Studies of Chinese and Japanese Writing

Pathways to Advanced Skills Series vol. 6
isbn: Old: 0-87415-344-1
New: 978-0-87415-344-6

Cost: $26.95
Language: Chinese & Japanese

Mary S. Erbaugh has compiled this volume to examine the so-called "ideographic myth" from a variety of perspectives. Through this multidisciplinary collection of articles, we learn how the myth has come about, what sort of theory and empirical evidence have been generated to refute it, and how this myth has stubbornly persisted to hamper progress in a number of scholarly areas. But perhaps most importantly, this volume presents in a detailed manner how different academic disciplines go about analyzing historical and empirical data in order to arrive at new knowledge.

Michael E. Everson
from the Foreword

Contents:

1. Ideographic Myth and the Alienation of Asian Studies from Psychology and Linguistics
   "The Ideographic Myth" (John DeFrancis); "How the Ideographic Myth Alienates Asian Studies from Psychology and Linguistics" (Mary S. Erbaugh);
2. Psychology of Reading and Teaching Characters
   "Scriptal Effects in Reading: A Phantom of Linguistic Relativity" (Ovid J. L. Tzeng and Daisy L. Hung); "Are Chinese Characters Ideographs?: Psycholinguistic Experiments on Reading Chinese and Japanese (Sachiko Matsunaga); "Teaching Johnny to Read Japanese: Some Thoughts on Chinese Characters" (Eleanor H. Jorden);
3. Sound and Meaning in the History of Characters
   "Views of China’s Earliest Script Reformers" (Victor H. Mair); "Functional Answers to Structural Problems in Thinking about Writing" (Mark Hansell); "An Exception that Proves the Rule: Ideography and Japanese Kun’yomi" (Timothy Vance);
4. Spillover from the Ideographic Myth to History, Literature, and Archeology
   "How the Ideographic Myth Misleads Historians: An Example from the Occupation of Japan" (J. Marshall Unger); "Ideograph as Other in Poststructuralist Literary Theory" (Mary S. Erbaugh); "Spillover to the Americas: The Ideographic Myth as a Barrier to the Decipherment of Maya Writing (Michael D. Coe)

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2000 Publications

The Pedagogy of African Languages: An Emerging Field

Pathways to Advanced Skills Series, vol. 5
by Antonia Schleicher and Lioba Moshi
isbn: Old: 0-87415-174-0
New: 978-0-87415-174-9

Cost: $24.95
Language: African

Contents: Foreword; "African Language Field Development"; "The State of African Language Instruction in the U.S.: An Inventory of Programs, Assets, and Resources"; "Focus on Teaching"; "Focus on the African Language Learner"; "A Goal-Based Approach to African Language Instruction"; "Toward Cultural Proficiency in African Languages"; "The Use of Audio-Visual and Emerging Technologies"; "A Twenty-First Century Vision for African Language Instruction and Learning"; Appendix "The Survey Questions"; Bibliography; Index

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1997 Publications

Learner, Text and Context: An Arabic Perspective

Pathways to Advanced Skills Series, vol. 4
isbn: Old: 0-87415-333-6
New: 978-0-87415-333-0

Cost: $26.95
Acknowledgments; Introduction; "Language Learning Strategies of Successful Learners"; "Reading Strategies of Elementary and Advanced Learners: Effects of CALL Coding Options on Comprehension"; "mpact of the Linguistic Situation in the Target Culture on Teaching the Language Abroad: The Case of Arabic Diglossia"; "The Construct of the Educated Native Speaker of Arabic: Implications for Curriculum Design"; "Computer-Assisted Language Learning: Linkage Between Learning and Research"; "Models of Foreign Language Acquisition and the Meaning-Form Relationship"; "Curriculum Design: Theoretical Bases and Implications"; "Assessment of Functional Language Abilities"; Appendix A "A Typology of Learning Strategies"; Appendix B "Foreign Language Learning Strategies"; Appendix C "Guidelines for Writing the Language Learning Journal"; Appendix D "Selected Questions Asked in the Oral Interviews"; Appendix E "A List of Colloquial Lexical Items in the Speech of Native Speakers in a Formal Situation"; Appendix F "Transliteration Key"; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author

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The NFLC Guide for Basic Chinese Language Programs
Second Edition

Pathways to Advanced Skills Series, vol. 3
by Cornelius Kubler, et. al.
isbn: 978-0-87415-071-1

Cost: $26.95
Language: Chinese

The guide tends to assist in the creation of new Chinese language programs. It incorporates a set of informed and explicit assumptions about learning and teaching the language that underlie the creation of a syllabus and the pedagogical practices involved in implementing it. The target readership includes Chinese language teachers and program administrators.

Contents: Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Executive Summary (with Chinese Translation); "Chinese"; "Learning Chinese"; "Defining Basic Chinese"; "Pedagogical Issues"; "Curriculum Design"; "Program Administration"; "Assessment"; "Students"; "Staff"; "Learning Environments"; Appendix: "Support Systems"; Notes; References; Index

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1996 Publications

Chinese Pedagogy: An Emerging Field

Pathways to Advanced Skills Series, vol. 2
isbn: Old: 0-87415-313-1
New: 978-0-87415-313-2

Cost: $20.95
Language: Chinese

Contents: Acknowledgements; Foreword (Hsueh and Light); "Toward a Communicative Model for Teaching and Learning Chinese as a Foreign Language: Exploring Some New Possibilities" (Chi); "Reinventing Language Fields: The Chinese Case" (Walton); "Tonal Distinction Errors by Beginning Chinese Language Students: A Comparative Study of American English and Japanese Native Speakers" (McGinnis); "Exploiting Background Knowledge in the Development of Chinese Pedagogical Reading Materials" (Everson); "Acquisition of Modal Particles in Chinese Second Language Learners" (Bourgerie); "Class Plan for Teaching Chinese as a Functional Language" (Chu); "Starting a Secondary School Chinese Program" (Wong); "Designing an Intensive Chinese Curriculum" (Walker); "Citizens of a Global Village: Information Technology and Chinese Language Instruction--A Search for Standards" (Alber); "A Review of Some Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) Software for Chinese" (Yao); "Linguistically Accurate and Culturally Appropriate: The Use of Authentic Video in Chinese Language Instruction" (Tang); Index

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1995 Publications

Learning the Less Commonly Taught Languages: An Agreement on the Bases for the Training of Teachers

Pathways to Advanced Skills Series, vol. 1
by Galal Walker and Scott McGinnis
isbn: Old: 0-87415-309-9
New: 978-0-87415-306-4

This monograph is volume I of the Pathways to Advanced Skills series, dedicated to teaching and learning less commonly taught languages.

Contents: Preface; Introduction “Principal Considerations”; “Conditions for Learning LCTLs”; “Adaptations to Local Conditions”; Conclusion “The Impact of Collective Wisdom on Individual Practitioners”; End Notes; References; Biographies of the Authors

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