Lin Learning English and Chinese as Foreign Languages

Sociocultural and Comparative Perspectives
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-1-78892-516-7
Verlag: Multilingual Matters
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 74, 232 Seiten

Reihe: New Perspectives on Language and Education

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lin, Wen-Chuan

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungssystem Bildungspolitik, Bildungsreform
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Fremdsprachenerwerb und -didaktik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. A Theoretical Insight: Socio-cultural Views on Language Learning

Chapter 3. Learning English/Chinese as Foreign Languages: The Contexts

Chapter 4. Getting Access to English/Chinese: Everyday Practice

Chapter 5. Classroom Life: A Pedagogical Concern

Chapter 6. Language Learning and Identity: Communities of Practice

Chapter 7. Synthesis and Cross-cultural Comparisons

Chapter 8. Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Lin, Wen-Chuan
Wen-Chuan Lin is Associate Professor, Wenzao Ursuline University of Languages, Taiwan. His research interests include intercultural studies, computer-mediated language learning and foreign language learning issues from the perspectives of Vygotskian Sociocultural Theory. He is co-editor of Internationalizing English Language Education in Globalized Taiwan (with I.J. Weng and R. Godwin-Jones, 2018, Tung Hua).