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Feng, Anwei – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2012
Greater China is used in this article to refer to mainland China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan and Macao. While a holistic approach is adopted to present and compare the rapid spread of English and development in English language education in these geographically close, and sociopolitically, culturally and economically interrelated but hugely…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Holistic Approach, Language Variation, English (Second Language)
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Adamson, Bob; Feng, Anwei – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2009
In recent decades, the People's Republic of China (PRC) has instigated language policies in education ostensibly designed to foster trilingualism in ethnic minority groups. The policies, which, as this paper shows, vary from region to region, encompass the minority group's home language, Chinese, and English. Based on data arising from interviews,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Public Policy, Chinese
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Feng, Anwei; Sunuodula, Mamtimyn – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2009
Two main bodies of literature are identifiable in minority education policy studies in China. Many adopt a descriptive approach to examining policy documents and general outcomes in their historical contexts while others focus on evaluating preferential policies made to address inequality issues in minority education. In most discussions,…
Descriptors: Policy Formation, Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis, Minority Groups