Understanding the desirability of English language education in Asian countries

Understanding the desirability of English language education in Asian countries

• Tseng, Chao Ling The Hong Kong Institute of Education

2009

Annual Meeting of American Educational Research Association: Disciplined Inquiry: Education Research in the Circle of Knowledge (2009: San Diego, CA)

• G Curriculum, Teaching & Learning: Specific Disciplines
  • GB English Language
• P Social Context of Education
  • PB Comparative Education

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Unknown or Unspecified

The popularity and desirability of English language education has become somewhat unbeatable in Asian countries. In this essay, highlighting the examples of Taiwan and Hong Kong, I seek to understand the multiple threads of reasoning systems that come together to constitute and sustain the desirability of English learning. In that, I conceptualize that language education is more than teaching and learning a new/foreign language. Language is intertwined with the sphere of culture. Thus, I hope to encourage an alternative perspective for rethinking the “heat” of English language education in Asian countries.In that, I seek to underscore that it is imperative to rethinking the effects of English language education.

Poster session presented at the Annual Meeting of American Educational Research Association: Disciplined Inquiry: Education Research in the Circle of Knowledge

• English

Conference Papers

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/en/bibs/111ffcd6

2015-10-08