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Being a 'purist' in Hong Kong: To use or not to use mixed code
- Being a 'purist' in Hong Kong: To use or not to use mixed code
- Changing English: Studies in Culture & Education, 17(4), 411-419, 2010
- Routledge
- 2010
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- Hong Kong
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- 1997.7 onwards
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- Primary Education
- This paper reports on my first-hand experiences of being a 'purist' in Hong Kong, during which time I was not allowed to use mixed code, a common discursive practice among Hongkongers in Hong Kong. I shall discuss the difficulties in using 'pure' English and 'pure' Chinese in my daily life, as well as exploring the problems I encountered when I used 'pure' English in teaching English to a small group of ESL students at a primary school in Hong Kong. I argue that mixed code is very much characteristic of everyday language use by most Hongkongers and represents an important marker of their ethno-linguistic identity. In relation to language teaching, I suggest that mixed code may be usefully adopted in teaching English in Hong Kong, rather than being shunned at all costs.[Copyright of Changing English: Studies in Culture & Education is the property of Routledge. Full article may be available at the publisher's website: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1358684X.2010.528875]
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- English
- Journal Articles
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- 1358684X
- https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/en/bibs/77cfe3a8
- 2011-03-01
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