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Direct linkLina Sun – Teaching in Higher Education, 2025
This study navigates the constructive role of English as a foreign language (EFL) as a critical intercultural discourse of locus of enunciation and linguistic citizenship through which teachers in Chinese educational context act as agents of action and social change. Based on a critical discourse analysis of learner diary entries, the study traces…
Descriptors: Diaries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Wang, Ying; Wen, Xu – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2023
Since the 1990s, the emphasis on intelligibility as a goal in pronunciation teaching rather than near-native or nativelike competence has been reinforced by the increasing use of English as a lingua franca. The insight of the intelligibility principle has greatly impressed researchers in China's English education, but has "very limited and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
Si Jinghui – SAGE Open, 2023
The prominent increase in English medium instruction (EMI) in higher education has triggered the need for investigating EMI in practice in various contexts. Studies focusing on linguistic attitudes of EMI practitioners and learners are beginning to emerge but there are few studies exploring language-related issues in EMI practice. In response to…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Variation
Download full textBrowning, Peter; Highet, Katy; Azada-Palacios, Rowena; Douek, Tania; Gong, Eleanor Yue; Sunyol, Andrea – London Review of Education, 2022
Within the spirit of conspiration, this article brings together contributions from participants of the PhD-led UCL Reading and React Group 'Colonialism(s), Neoliberalism(s) and Language Teaching and Learning', which ran in 2019/20. Weaving together various perspectives, the article centres on the dialogic nature of the decolonial enterprise and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Colonialism, Educational Change
Piller, Ingrid; Zhang, Jie; Li, Jia – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2022
The decolonization of knowledge is increasingly high on the agenda of applied and sociolinguistics. This article contributes to this agenda by examining how peripheral multilingual scholars confront their linguistic and epistemic exclusion from global knowledge production. Based on the product of such a challenge -- a Chinese-centric special issue…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, COVID-19, Pandemics, Periodicals
Li, Jia; Han, Huamei – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2021
Based on a larger ethnography (Li, 2017. Social Reproduction and Migrant Education: A Critical Sociolinguistic Ethnography of Burmese Students' Learning Experiences at a Border High School in China. (PhD), Macquarie University. http://www.languageonthemove.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/LI_Jia_Social_reproduction_and_migrant_education.pdf) and…
Descriptors: Ethnic Groups, Ethnography, Learning Experience, High School Students
Gao, Katie B. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The study of language contact epitomizes the dynamics of language as a system of human communication. The competing linguistic forces at work when speakers of different language varieties come into contact can be narrowed down to two basic concepts--convergence and divergence. Looking at linguistic areas using a macro approach, languages in…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Language Variation, Foreign Countries, Ethnicity
Lin, Han-Yi – Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 2014
This research investigates the ideological character of the English language in East Asia. It focuses on the prevailing beliefs, values and propositions relating to English as a global language and the spread of English in the non-English East Asian countries, namely China, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. By analyzing how English is presented in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English, English (Second Language), Language Variation
Wei, Ming – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2016
This study was based on the view that collective conceptions of learners have intimate connections with both social and linguistic analysis and language education. It set out to examine systematically the perceptions of Chinese college students on English and English education against the background of both the increasing role of English in the…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Self Concept, College Students, English (Second Language)
Feng, Anwei – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2012
Greater China is used in this article to refer to mainland China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan and Macao. While a holistic approach is adopted to present and compare the rapid spread of English and development in English language education in these geographically close, and sociopolitically, culturally and economically interrelated but hugely…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Holistic Approach, Language Variation, English (Second Language)
Zhang, Mingjuan – English Language Teaching, 2008
This paper is a general study of one of varieties of English--China English and its influence on English Language Teaching (ELT) for English majors. The status of English as an International language breaks the situation in which British English or American English is the sole standard. English becomes World Englishes, taking on a plural form,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Majors (Students)
Peer reviewedBai, Jianhua – Language Problems and Language Planning, 1994
A survey of 55 Chinese students and scholars visiting the United States investigated attitudes toward the spread of Putonghua, the standard variety of Chinese. Results indicate six categories of attitude, five supporting its spread. They also show a correlation of attitude with age, birthplace, current residence, and parents' occupation.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Chinese, Communication (Thought Transfer), Education
