An ecological psychology perspective in teaching Chinese online

Abstract: In this paper, we first introduce three ecological principles for designing Chinese language online teaching and learning activities drawing from ecological psychology. The first principle – perception and action cycles in an ecosystem, advocates for situating online learning in a physical environment and creates activities with potentials to engage perception-action cycles. With the second principle – intention and attention merge in an ecosystem, we advocate for designing complex, flexible and dynamic activities and providing scaffolding for attunement. The third – meaning-making and values-realizing coincide in an ecosystem, calls for designing activities that allow for care-taking of oneself, each other, and the environment and cultivate curiosity and mindfulness for values-realizing and individual meaning-making. To highlight ways to tap into learners’ interest and connect to people and places, we then share two example activities with both low-technology and high-technology options.

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• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: An ecological psychology perspective in teaching Chinese online ; volume:3 ; number:1 ; year:2023 ; pages:188-207 ; extent:20 ; Journal of China computer-assisted language learning ; 3, Heft 1 (2023), 188-207 (gesamt 20)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Paul, Jing ; Nuesser, Michaela ; Zheng, Dongping

Further information

• DOI: 10.1515/jccall-2023-0012
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2023082314030222148873
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.