English as a Global Language in China
Title | English as a Global Language in China PDF eBook |
Author | Lin Pan |
Publisher | Springer |
Total Pages | 189 |
Release | 2014-10-28 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 331910392X |
This book offers insight into the spread and impact of English language education in China within China’s broader educational, social, economic and political changes. The author's critical perspective informs readers on the connections between language education and political ideologies in the context of globalizing China. The discussion of the implications concerning language education is of interest for current and future language policy makers, language educators and learners. Including both diachronic and synchronic accounts or China’s language education policy, this volume highlights how China as a modern nation-state has been seeking a more central position globally, and the role that English education and the promotion of such education played in that effort in recent decades.
The Rise of Chinese as a Global Language
Title | The Rise of Chinese as a Global Language PDF eBook |
Author | Jeffrey Gil |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Total Pages | 188 |
Release | 2021-06-07 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 3030761711 |
This book investigates the macroacquisition of Chinese – its large-scale acquisition and adoption for various purposes by individuals, governments and organisations – and the implications of this process for the future of English as a global language. The author contextualises the macroacquisition of Chinese within the global ecology of languages, then analyses the factors responsible for the macroacquisition of Chinese, showing, in contrast to most academic and popular commentary, that a character-based writing system will not stop Chinese from becoming a global language. He then articulates three possible future scenarios: English remaining a dominant global language, English and Chinese both being global languages, and Chinese becoming a global language instead of English. The book concludes by outlining directions for further research on the acquisition and use of Chinese around the world. It will be of interest to students and scholars with an interest in English as a global language, Chinese as a second/foreign language, language education policy, and applied linguistics more generally.
Teaching Chinese as an International Language
Title | Teaching Chinese as an International Language PDF eBook |
Author | Yeng-Seng Goh |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 231 |
Release | 2017-08-17 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 110705219X |
A lively and accessible account which explores the teaching of Chinese as an international language from a Singapore perspective.
English as an International Language in Asia: Implications for Language Education
Title | English as an International Language in Asia: Implications for Language Education PDF eBook |
Author | Roland Sussex |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | 242 |
Release | 2012-07-10 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 940074577X |
Noting ASEAN's adoption of English as its sole workng language, this book analyzes the language education policies of Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, Japan, Sri Lanka and China, and traces the influence of globalization on English language education in Asia.
English as a Global Language
Title | English as a Global Language PDF eBook |
Author | David Crystal |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 227 |
Release | 2012-03-29 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 1107611806 |
Written in a detailed and fascinating manner, this book is ideal for general readers interested in the English language.
English Language Education Across Greater China
Title | English Language Education Across Greater China PDF eBook |
Author | Anwei Feng |
Publisher | Multilingual Matters |
Total Pages | 299 |
Release | 2011-02-01 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1847694969 |
This volume is the first to offer a comprehensive and, at the same time, in-depth examination of the spread of English and English language education across Greater China. It consists of two parts. Part 1 presents rich sociolinguistic data for easy comparisons between mainland China, Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macao, while Part 2 explores in depth the phenomena inside mainland China to provide contrastive analysis of English language use and education in economically booming areas such as Shanghai and Guangdong and underdeveloped regions like Xinjiang and Yunnan. With the descriptive, comparative and analytical accounts of different territories ranging from nation-states to small villages in remote areas, theories on the spread of English, second/third language acquisition and identity are challenged with new concepts proposed and established.
China and English
Title | China and English PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph Lo Bianco |
Publisher | Multilingual Matters |
Total Pages | 330 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 1847692281 |
China has become the world's largest English learning society, and China's decisions in relation to English will directly affect its fortunes into the future. This unique volume explores the prospects of English in relation to the debates on identity and cultural values that mass English teaching in China have stimulated.