English as an International Language in Asia: Implications for Language Education - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook English as an International Language in Asia: Implications for Language Education write by Roland Sussex. This book was released on 2012-07-10. English as an International Language in Asia: Implications for Language Education available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Is English an Asian Language?
Is English an Asian Language? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Is English an Asian Language? write by Andy Kirkpatrick. This book was released on 2020-10-29. Is English an Asian Language? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A comprehensive account of how English is being used and reshaped by multilingual Asian speakers to fit their everyday needs.
English as a Lingua Franca in ASEAN
English as a Lingua Franca in ASEAN - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook English as a Lingua Franca in ASEAN write by Andy Kirkpatrick. This book was released on 2010-09-01. English as a Lingua Franca in ASEAN available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The lingua franca role of English, coupled with its status as the official language of ASEAN, has important implications for language policy and language education. These include the relationship between English, the respective national languages of ASEAN and thousands of local languages. How can the demand for English be balanced against the need for people to acquire their national language and mother tongue? While many will also need a regional lingua franca, they are learning English as the first foreign language from primary school in all ASEAN countries. Might not this early introduction of English threaten local languages and children's ability to learn? Or can English be introduced and taught in such a way that it can complement local languages rather than replace them? The aim of this book is to explore questions such as these and then make recommendations on language policy and language education for regional policymakers. The book will be important for regional policymakers and language education professionals. It should also benefit language teachers, especially, but by no means exclusively, English language teachers. The book will be of interest to all who are interested in the development of English as an international language and the possible implications of this upon local languages and cultures. Andy Kirkpatrickis chair professor of English as an international language at the Hong Kong Institute of Education and director of the Institute's Research Centre into Language Education and Acquisition in Multilingual Societies. His research interests include the development of regional varieties of English and the history of Chinese rhetoric. "Much research has been carried out on varieties of English used in Southeast Asia, but how intelligible these varieties are to others and whether a shift towards an international 'standard' variety occurs in interactions between people from the region, has been much less discussed. This volume, which provides a comprehensive account of the roles and functions of English in ASEAN, and gives a linguistic description of the English spoken in the region, followed by an approach to teaching English called the 'multilingual model', is therefore a welcome contribution to studies on English in Asia." - Azirah Hashim, Professor of English, University of Malaya
Conditions for English Language Teaching and Learning in Asia
Conditions for English Language Teaching and Learning in Asia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Conditions for English Language Teaching and Learning in Asia write by Bernard Spolsky. This book was released on 2015-01-12. Conditions for English Language Teaching and Learning in Asia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1989, Bernard Spolsky published Conditions for Second Language Learning (Oxford University Press). At the 2012 Annual Conference of Asia TEFL, a number of senior scholars were invited to comment upon the relevance of the book to the teaching of English in their region, and to make suggestions on how it might be updated. This volume contains revised versions of these talks, and thus provides a survey of the conditions for teaching English in Asia. Most contributors found the Conditions model useful, but there has been a major change in emphasis in the past two decades: whereas the 1989 book emphasized linguistic and psycholinguistic conditions, more recent work generally emphasizes the importance of sociolinguistic and language policy conditions for teaching English in Asia today.
Is English an Asian Language?
Is English an Asian Language? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Is English an Asian Language? write by Andy Kirkpatrick. This book was released on 2020-10-29. Is English an Asian Language? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Asia is now home to some 800 million multilingual speakers of English, more than the total number of native English speakers, and how they use English is continuously evolving and changing to reflect their cultural backgrounds and everyday experiences. Can English, therefore, be considered an Asian language? Drawing upon the Asian Corpus of English, this book will be the first comprehensive account of the roles, uses and features of English in Asia, encompassing several different varieties of Asian English. Chapters cover the distinctive linguistic features of English in different settings, such as in law, religion and popular culture, as well as the use of local rhetorical, pragmatic and cultural styles and its use as a lingua franca among Asian multilinguals. It will also examine the role of English in education - from primary through to higher education - and consider the implications of this for other languages of Asia.
