Reading English in the East Asian Classroom
This chapter investigates the problems typically encountered by East Asian learners in their attempts to gain English literacy, as well as how to assist learners in overcoming such difficulties. It begins with a discussion about the importance of reading
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Clay H. Williams
Teaching English in East Asia A Teacher’s Guide to Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Learners
Springer Texts in Education
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Clay H. Williams
Teaching English in East Asia A Teacher’s Guide to Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Learners
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Clay H. Williams Akita International University Akita Japan
ISSN 2366-7672 Springer Texts in Education ISBN 978-981-10-3805-1 DOI 10.1007/978-981-10-3807-5
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“Dedicated to my darling wife, who is my favorite East Asian learner of English of all time, and my two sons, who are the greatest playmates a dad could ever ask for.”
Preface
In the last three decades, two extraordinary changes have occurred in East Asia whose effects will be seen globally in years to come. These two changes—at first glance—appear to be unrelated, but upon deeper examination, one will realize that they are one and the same phenomenon. The first change was a shift in educational curriculum, which spread through Japan to Korea and Taiwan, and then inevitably onwards to the regional colossus, China. Since the Second World War, the primary goal of the public educational systems in all of these countries was to promote citizenship and to foster a sense of intense nationalism. Predictably, foreign contributions to the national development were intentionally minimized in relative importance, and as such, foreign language learning was
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