30.3694, Books: Learning English and Chinese as Foreign Languages: Lin

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Subject: 30.3694, Books: Learning English and Chinese as Foreign Languages: Lin

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Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2019 11:35:29
From: Elinor Robertson [Elinor at Multilingual-Matters.com]
Subject: Learning English and Chinese as Foreign Languages: Lin

 


Title: Learning English and Chinese as Foreign Languages 
Subtitle: Sociocultural and Comparative Perspectives 
Series Title: New Perspectives on Language and Education  

Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
	   http://www.multilingual-matters.com/
	

Book URL: http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?isb=9781788925136 


Author: Wen-Chuan Lin

Hardback: ISBN:  9781788925143 Pages: 232 Price: U.S. $ 139.95
Hardback: ISBN:  9781788925143 Pages: 232 Price: U.K. £ 99.95
Paperback: ISBN:  9781788925136 Pages: 232 Price: U.S. $ 39.95
Paperback: ISBN:  9781788925136 Pages: 232 Price: U.K. £ 29.95


Abstract:

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.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Language Acquisition


Written In: English  (eng)

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