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Download full textWheeler, John – Journal of English as an International Language, 2019
Macau is a small Special Autonomous Region (SAR) of China, located on the Pearl River Delta, adjacent to Hong Kong. Unlike Hong Kong, its colonial heritage is Portuguese, rather than British. Macau's official languages are Portuguese and Standard Chinese and the most widely spoken local language is Cantonese. With the influx of gaming finance into…
Descriptors: Case Studies, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Direct linkSpolsky, Bernard – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2018
In studying language policy, it is not enough to look at central government management, but also at the influence of managers at levels ranging from the family to international organizations. Actual cases reveal that there are also non-linguistic forces such as demography, war, civil strife, and economic breakdowns which have major effects. This…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Foreign Policy, Foreign Countries, Land Settlement
Young, Ming Yee Carissa – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2009
This paper focuses on the current use of the three written languages (Chinese, Portuguese and English) and the four spoken languages (Chinese-Cantonese, Chinese-Putonghua, Portuguese and English) in Macao, a former Portuguese colony (1557-1999) which is now a Special Administrative Region of China. Chinese and Portuguese are official languages,…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Official Languages, Multilingualism, Foreign Countries
