English Language Education Across Greater China

Dr Anwei Feng has teaching and research experience in tertiary institutions in many countries and regions including China, Hong Kong, Singapore as well as the UK. He is currently Reader in Education and directs Graduate Programmes in the School of Education at Bangor University, UK. His main research interests are in the areas of bi/trilingualism and bi/trilingual education and intercultural studies in education. His recent publications include Becoming Interculturally Competent through Education and Training (2009, with M. Byram and M. Fleming) and Bilingual Education in China: Practices, Policies and Concepts (2007). He also regularly publishes articles in these areas in peer-reviewed journals.

This impressive collection brings together 21 international scholars who provide a fascinating in-depth look at English language teaching and use across the linguistically and culturally complex area called Greater China. Not only do these authors provide valuable documentation of the history, implementation and impact of language policies and English teaching in different countries and diverse regions of Mainland China, but collectively they also challenge us to rethink many of the theories, models, and concepts which have long dominated the fields of English language teaching, applied linguistics, and bilingual education. As such, this book makes a most significant and valuable contribution.

• Foreword - David CrystalChapter 1 – Introduction: The Apex of ‘the Third Wave’ – English Language across Greater China - Anwei FENGPart I – Sociolinguistic Profiles of Countries and Regions across Greater ChinaChapter 2 – The English language in China: A sociolinguistic profile - Jeffrey GIL and Bob ADAMSONChapter 3 – English-knowing bilingualism in Singapore: Economic pragmatism, ethnic relations and class - T. Ruanni F. TUPASChapter 4 – English language in Taiwan: An examination of its use in society and education in schools - Irene Wen-ling CHEN and Jessie Ju-Chen HSIEHChapter 5 – Improving the standards and promoting the use of English in Hong Kong: Issues, problems and prospects - David C.S. LIChapter 6 – English use and education in Macao - Ming Yee Carissa YOUNGPart II – Convergence and Divergence of English Language Use and Education in Different Regions in Mainland ChinaChapter 7 – The ‘English Curriculum Standards’ in China: Rationales and issues - Xiaotang CHENGChapter 8 – Primary school English teaching in South China: Past, present and future - Yuefeng Zhang and Jinjun WANGChapter 9 – English immersion in China - Haiyan QIANG, Xiaodan HUANG, Linda SIEGEL and Barbara TRUBEChapter 10 – Family background and English learning at compulsory stage in Shanghai - Weicheng ZOU and Shaolin ZHANGChapter 11 – Economic development and the growing importance of the English language in Guangxi - Binlan HUANGChapter 12 – Trilingual education policy ideals and realities for the Naxi in Yunnan - Dongyan Ru BLACHFORD and Marion JONESChapter 13 – Learning English as L3 by Uyghur students in Xinjiang: A blessing in disguise? - Mamtimyn SUNUODULA and Anwei FENG