Lin Wen - Chuan
Lin Wen - Chuan - Learning English And Chinese As Foreign Languages Sociocultural And Comparative Perspectives - Paperback
Lin Wen - Chuan - Learning English And Chinese As Foreign Languages Sociocultural And Comparative Perspectives - Paperback
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Description: Learning English and Chinese is becoming increasingly important to the prospects of young people. This book compares English as a Foreign Language teaching in Taiwan with Chinese as a Foreign Language education in England in order to highlight how classroom activities are embedded within multiple settings including ethnic or other social group cultures family and community resources and school visions or goals. The book illustrates how in Taiwan different ethnic groups recognise access and value English language learning to varying extents. Its findings illuminate why some ethnic groups are highly motivated to learn English and are able to gain privileged economic positions in the job market. In England access to Chinese is marked by social class and the book argues that this could augment an educational apartheid that already exists in language teaching in secondary schools thereby exacerbating existing inequality.
Title: Learning English And Chinese As Foreign Languages Sociocultural And Comparative Perspectives
Author(s): Lin Wen - Chuan
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Barcode: 9781788925136
Pages: 232 Pages
Publication Date: 9/19/2019
Series: New Perspectives on Language and Education
Category: Educational Strategies & Policy
Description: Learning English and Chinese is becoming increasingly important to the prospects of young people. This book compares English as a Foreign Language teaching in Taiwan with Chinese as a Foreign Language education in England in order to highlight how classroom activities are embedded within multiple settings including ethnic or other social group cultures family and community resources and school visions or goals. The book illustrates how in Taiwan different ethnic groups recognise access and value English language learning to varying extents. Its findings illuminate why some ethnic groups are highly motivated to learn English and are able to gain privileged economic positions in the job market. In England access to Chinese is marked by social class and the book argues that this could augment an educational apartheid that already exists in language teaching in secondary schools thereby exacerbating existing inequality.
Title: Learning English And Chinese As Foreign Languages Sociocultural And Comparative Perspectives
Author(s): Lin Wen - Chuan
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Barcode: 9781788925136
Pages: 232 Pages
Publication Date: 9/19/2019
Series: New Perspectives on Language and Education
Category: Educational Strategies & Policy
