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Spread of English across Greater China
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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)
Immersion Education: Practices, Policies, Possibilities. Bilingual Education & Bilingualism
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Tedick, Diane J.; Christian, Donna; Fortune, Tara Williams – Multilingual Matters, 2011
This volume builds on Fortune and Tedick's 2008 Pathways to Multilingualism: Evolving Perspectives on Immersion Education and showcases the practice and promise of immersion education through in-depth investigations of program design, implementation practices, and policies in one-way, two-way and indigenous programs. Contributors present new…
Descriptors: Program Design, Immersion Programs, Bilingual Education, Program Implementation
Learning through L2--Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) and English as Medium of Instruction (EMI)
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Wannagat, Ulrich – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2007
Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) has been promoted by the European Union as a means to achieve multilingualism. While in Germany and other European countries the trend to use the L2 as a medium of instruction is increasing, in Hong Kong, however, we see a converse development. Many schools switched from English as a medium of…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Language of Instruction, Interaction, Foreign Countries
An Integrated Approach to the Design of an Immersion Program.
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Goldstein, Laurence; Liu, Ngar-Fun – TESOL Quarterly, 1994
Describes an English immersion "Bridge Program" for Hong Kong children that aims to provide a bridge between primary schooling in Chinese and secondary schooling in English. Also discussed are the role of communicative language teaching in content subject teaching, theoretical assumptions of Canadian immersion programs and the Bridge…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Chinese, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language)
Helping Teachers Change the Language of the Classroom: Lessons from In-Service Teacher Education.
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Hoare, Philip; Kong, Stella – 1994
A Hong Kong program to train secondary school teachers in the use of English as the medium of classroom instruction is reported and discussed. The program provides assistance to teachers accustomed to using mixed code in the classroom and who must use English consistently, and helps English teachers understand how they can support teachers of…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Classroom Communication, Classroom Techniques, Educational Change