"This book compares English as a Foreign Language teaching in Taiwan with Chinese as a Foreign Language education in England and highlights how classroom activities are embedded within ethnic or social group cultures, family resources and school visions or goals, and it highlights the potential for a perpetuation of social inequality as a result"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
A theoretical insight : socio-cultural views on language learning -- Learning English/Chinese as foreign languages : the contexts -- Getting access to English/Chinese : everyday practice -- Classroom life : a pedagogical concern -- Language learning and identity : communities of practice -- Synthesis and cross-cultural comparisons.
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