Learning English and Chinese as Foreign Languages (eBook)

Sociocultural and Comparative Perspectives

Wen-Chuan Lin (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2019
232 Seiten
Channel View Publications (Verlag)
978-1-78892-516-7 (ISBN)

Infos

This book compares English as a Foreign Language teaching in Taiwan with Chinese as a Foreign Language education in England and highlights how classroom activities are embedded within ethnic or social group cultures, family resources and school visions or goals, and it highlights the potential for a perpetuation of social inequality as a result.

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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.

Autor

lt;p>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).

Inhalt

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

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.9.2019
• Reihe/Serie: New Perspectives on Language and Education
• Reihe/Serie: New Perspectives on Language and Education
• Verlagsort: Bristol
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lektüren / Interpretationen
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Schlagworte: Chinese • Chinese as foreign language • EFL • Equality of opportunity • Foreign language learning • Pedagogy • Socio-cultural theory
• ISBN-10: 1-78892-516-5 / 1788925165
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78892-516-7 / 9781788925167