[lg policy] Book: English as an International Language in Asia

[Harold Schiffman]

 Forwarded From: Francis Hult  <EDLING at bunner.geol.lu.se>

Title: English as an International Language in Asia: Implications for
Language Education
Editors: Andy Kirkpatrick and Roland Sussex
ISBN: 978-94-007-4577-3
Hardback Price: US $129.00/Euro 99.95
*Softcover Price: $24.95
URL: http://www.springer.com/education+%26+language/book/978-94-007-4577-3

About the book:

Even as Anglophone power wanes in Asia, and China and India rise, the
role of the English language in the region continues to develop. How
are students in Asian nations such as Vietnam, Malaysia and China
itself being taught English? This much-needed overview analyzes the
differing language education policies of selected countries that also
include Indonesia, Japan and Sri Lanka. Noting ASEAN’s adoption of
English as its sole working language, it traces the influence of
globalization on English language education in Asia: in many systems,
it pushes local languages off the curriculum and is taught as a second
language after the national one.

Informed by a comprehensive review of current research and practice in
English teaching in Asia, this volume considers the many different
roles English is playing across the region, as well as offering an
informed assessment of the prospects of English—and Chinese—being a
universal language of communication.

Table of contents:

Introduction, Andy Kirkpatrick and Roland Sussex .- World Englishes
and Asian Englishes: A Survey of the Field, Kingsley Bolton .-
EDUCATION . English as an International Language in Asia: Implications
for Language Education, Andy Kirkpatrick . The Complexities of
Re-reversal of Language-in-Education Policy in Malaysia, Saran Kaur
Gill . English in Multicultural and Multilingual Indonesian Education,
Fuad Abdul Hamied . Teaching English as an International Language in
Mainland China, Qiufang Wen .- COMMUNICATION AND LINGUA FRANCAS .
English as a Medium for Russians to Communicate in Asia, Zoya Proshina
. Global vs. Glocal English in Dynamic Asia, Duong Thi Hoang Oanh .
Lingua Francas as Language Ideologies, Alastair Pennycook .- LANGUAGES
AND CULTURES IN CONTACT . Negotiating Indigenous Values with
Anglo-American Cultures in ELT in Japan: A Case of EIL Philosophy in
the Expanding Circle, Nobuyuki Hino . Switching in International
English, Roland Sussex .-NORMS . English in South Asia – Ambinormative
Orientations and the Role of Corpora: The State of the debate in Sri
Lanka, Joybrato Mukherjee . Authenticity of English in Asian Popular
Music, Andrew Moody . A Postscript and a Prolegmenon, Roland Sussex
and Andy Kirkpatrick

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