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Primary School English-Language Education in Asia - From Policy to Practice (Hardcover)
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Primary School English-Language Education in Asia - From Policy to Practice (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Asian Education
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In Asia, English is no longer a foreign language but a key resource
for education, government, business and the general public. Whereas
thirty years ago, British and American experts believed that the
best way to improve the quality of English teaching was to cancel
any programs below the secondary level, Asian nations as well as
European are now introducing English in primary school. But there
are major obstacles to overcome: the training of enough local
teachers or the hiring of English speakers, the preparation of
suitable teaching materials, the development of useful tests, and
the design of workable curriculums. The chapters in this book,
written by leading English-teaching professionals in seven Asian
countries and originally delivered at the 2010 annual conference of
Asia TEFL which took place in Hanoi, Vietnam, describe and analyze
national policies and how they are implemented. The coverage is
wide: China with its huge number of students learning English,
Japan working to make the transition from elementary to secondary
school seamless, Singapore continuing to use English as medium of
instruction for its multilingual population, Korea developing
English education policies to recognize the increased role of
English alongside the national language, India building on its
colonial past to make English an economic resource, Vietnam fitting
English into a program of national rebuilding, and Taiwan spreading
its English teaching outside the national capital. This is not a
report of the views of outside experts, but of local experiences
understood by local scholars of international standing. Policy
makers, educators, researchers and scholars will be able to gain
valuable insights from Asian experts.
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