Multilingual Education
Jiening Ruan · Andy Kirkpatrick · Cynthia Leung · David Deterding · Katie Dunworth · Linda Tsung · Mila Schwartz · Roland Sussex
Latest release: April 25, 2023
Ethnic Studies · Linguistics · Literacy
Series
43
Books
About this ebook series
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 overview analyzes the differing language education policies of selected countries that also include Indonesia, Japan and Sri Lanka. Noting ASEAN’s adoption of English as its sole working language, it traces the influence of globalization on English language education in Asia: in many systems, it pushes local languages off the curriculum and is taught as a second language after the national one. Informed by a comprehensive review of current research and practice in English teaching in Asia, this volume considers the many different roles English is playing across the region, as well as offering an informed assessment of the prospects of English—and Chinese—being a universal language of communication.