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Amily D Wang GUENIER
Lancaster University, UK

Lan Li
University College Dublin, Ireland

Abstract
The purpose of the study is to investigate what and how Chinese culture is represented in the Chinese textbooks via critical discourse analysis (CDA). To address the raised research questions, the qualitative data of semi-structured interviews with the teachers who use these textbooks in the Irish context were scrutinized. It was found that these Chinese textbooks tend to provide general cultural knowledge to capture Irish students’ attention, and fall short of developing their global communicative competence (GCC). Furthermore, the integration of real-life materials into Chinese textbooks, together with practices and perspectives, is perceived as vital to the development of language skills and global citizenship education. Viewed thus, more efforts are needed to design Chinese teaching and learning materials and activities to cater for the increasing needs of Irish students, tertiary or secondary. The study is intended to shed light on the writing of Chinese teaching materials for foreign language learners locally and globally.

Keywords
Chinese culture representation, global communicative competence, Chinese textbook, critical discourse analysis

国际视野，本土教学：爱尔兰中文教材中的中国文化呈现

王冬硕
兰卡斯特大学，英国

李岚
都柏林大学，爱尔兰

摘要
本研究的目的是通过批判性话语分析（CDA）研究中国文化在爱尔兰的中文教科书中的内容呈现和表现形式。为了解决这一研究问题，我们对在爱尔兰使用这些中文教科书的教师进行了半结构化的定性访谈。研究发现，这些中文教科书倾向于提供一般文化知识来吸引爱尔兰学生的注意力，而未能培养他们的全球交际能力。此外，将现实生活材料与中文教科书相结合，以及提供文化实践的机会对语言技能和全球公民教育的发展至关重要。因此，教师需要更重视设计中文教学材料和活动，以满足爱尔兰高等教育或中学学生日益增长的中文学习需求。该研究旨在为本土和全球外语学习者编写中文教材提供启示。

关键词
中国文化呈现，全球交际能力，中文教材，批评话语分析，爱尔兰