English as an International Language in Asia: Implications for Language Education
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 over
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MULTILINGUAL EDUCATION VOLUME 1
Series Editors: Andy Kirkpatrick Director, Research Centre into Language Education and Acquisition in Multilingual Societies Hong Kong Institute of Education Bob Adamson Head, Department of Curriculum and Instruction Hong Kong Institute of Education David C.S. Lee Department of English Hong Kong Institute of Education
Editorial Board: Jan Blommaert, University of Tilburg, The Netherlands Feng Anwei, University of Wales at Bangor, UK Ofelia Garcia, The Graduate Centre, City University of New York, USA Saran Kaur Gill, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Gu Yueguo, The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Hartmut Haberland, University of Roskilde, Denmark Li Chor Shing David, The Hong Kong Institute of Education Li Wei, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK Low Ee-Ling, National Institute of Education, Singapore Tony Liddicoat, University of South Australia Ricardo Nolasco, University of the Phillipines at Diliman, Manila, The Philippines Merrill Swain, Ontario Institute of Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Canada Virginia Yip Choy Yin, Chinese University of Hong Kong
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Andy Kirkpatrick • Roland Sussex Editors
English as an International Language in Asia: Implications for Language Education
Editors Andy Kirkpatrick School of Languages and Linguistics Griffith University Nathan, Qld, Australia
Roland Sussex School of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies, and Centre for Educational Innovation and Technology The University of Queensland Brisbane, Qld, Australia
ISSN 2213-3208 ISSN 2213-3216 (electronic) ISBN 978-94-007-4577-3 ISBN 978-94-007-4578-0 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-4578-0 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg New York London Library of Congress Control Number: 2012946201 © Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2012 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. Exempted from this legal reservation are brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis or material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the Copyright Law of the Publisher’s location, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Permissions for use may be obtained through RightsLink at the Copyright Clearance Center. Violations are liable to prosecution under the respective Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this public
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