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Chinese and American EFL Teachers' Beliefs about Curricular and Pedagogical Practices: Cross-Cultural Similarities and Differences
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Clark-Gareca, Beth; Gui, Min – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2019
Instructional practices are fundamentally influenced by teacher beliefs. Cultural and pedagogical belief differences in EFL teachers can fuel a lack of professional understanding among teachers with contrasting perspectives about effective teaching practices. The present study examined the alignment between the beliefs of Chinese English teachers…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Language Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, English (Second Language)
"Please Don't Climb Trees and Pick Flowers for the Sake of Life"--Making Sense of Bilingual Tourism Signs in China
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Radtke, Oliver; Yuan, Xin – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2011
This paper deals with Chinglish as Chinese-English translations found on public bilingual signage in the People's Republic of China. After a short review of the existing literature, this study attempts to establish a typology of Chinglish with corpus-based research. Additionally, the corpus serves for geographical and statistical analysis. This…
Descriptors: Tourism, Foreign Countries, Statistical Analysis, English (Second Language)
Use the Road: The Appropriacy of Appropriation.
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Bartlett, Tom – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2001
Proposes a shift from ideological critiques of the English language teaching industry to an exploration of the emancipatory potential for minority groups in appropriating the language systems of dominant social groups so as to take their own cultural visions into the forums of everyday politics. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Grammar, Intercultural Communication