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Download full textWang, Li-Yi; Lin, Tzu-Bin – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2013
The status of English as a global language has played a significant role in contemporary language education policies across the world. In East Asia, the hegemony of English has been reflected in a number of central governments' policies of recruiting native English-speaking teachers (NESTs) to participate in English language education. This paper…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Recruitment, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
Peer reviewedBoyle, Joseph – Language and Education, 1997
Considers the role of native-speaker English language teachers in Hong Kong. First, the article examines the concept of native speaker and offers five criteria that determine whether a person can be classed as a native speaker or not. Second, it focuses on the use of native-speaker English teachers in Hong Kong, with particular reference to a…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Language Teachers, Language Variation
Peer reviewedHirvela, Alan – Journal of Asian Pacific Communication, 1991
Examines the role of English in Hong Kong, which is the language of business and government, but where it is spoken as a native language by only 2 percent of the population. (JL)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Language Planning, Language Role
Peer reviewedLee, Jackie F. K. – World Englishes, 2001
Compares the linguistic acceptability of the various forms of "need" in non-assertive contexts (i.e. in interrogatives and negatives) between two speech communities: Australians as native speakers of English, and Hong Kong people as second or foreign language learners of English. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, High School Students
