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Qilong Zhang; Jianqin Yin; Ke Jiang – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2025
In the globalized age, Chinese kindergartens are exposed to numerous western curriculum perspectives and practices. To construct a kindergarten-based curriculum (KBC), Chinese kindergartens tend to borrow western ideas. Using the Reggio Emilia approach (REA) as an example, this focused ethnographic study conducts an empirical investigation into…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Curriculum, Reggio Emilia Approach, Kindergarten
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Jiang, Anne Li; Zhang, Lawrence Jun; May, Stephen; Qin, Limin Tony – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2020
Teaching English for specific purposes (ESP) is widely acknowledged as highly demanding for teachers. Currently in China itself, shifting the curriculum focus from General English to ESP in the provision of English language education is regarded as a curriculum innovation. And yet, scarcely any research has probed into the challenges facing novice…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, English for Special Purposes, Foreign Countries
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Xie, Qing – Cogent Education, 2017
This article reports an investigative study on the target language use in and outside business English classrooms for non-English major undergraduates in a Chinese university context. The aims of the study are to identify the actual situation of target language use in business English teaching and to suggest ways for improvements. The study uses…
Descriptors: Business Communication, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction