English Language Education Across Greater China by Anwei Feng
By Anwei Feng
This quantity bargains a entire exam of the unfold of English and English schooling throughout larger China via sociolinguistic reviews of Mainland China, Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau, and in-depth research of English language use and schooling in economically booming parts of Mainland China resembling Shanghai and Guangdong and underdeveloped areas like Xinjiang.
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Overseas basketball and football teams regularly visit mainland China, while there is an annual Formula One motor race in Shanghai and an international tennis tournament in Beijing, to name but a few such events. With English serving as the main language of these events, and Chinese athletes, such as Yao Ming playing professional basketball in the USA and Zheng Jie, who reached the semi-finals of the women’s tennis championship at Wimbledon in 2008, demonstrating a high degree of competence in the language, English serves as a conduit for sporting connections.
The vast differences between mainland China’s rich coastal provinces and poor inland provinces, as well as urban and rural 40 Part 1: Sociolinguistic Profiles of Countries and Regions areas, are well known and these differences determine both the opportunities to learn English and the quality of the learning experience (Cortazzi & Jin, 1996a; Nunan, 2003). In addition, there is evidence to suggest a strong desire among members of mainland China’s ethnic minorities to learn English (Dreyer, 2003; Gil, 2006), yet studies of language policies in ethnic minority areas show that provision of English in formal education is patchy at best (Adamson & Feng, 2009; Huang, 2007), which disadvantages minority students in accessing university education and well-paid jobs.
An emergent trend is to teach secondary schools subjects such as mathematics and science through the medium of English. This mode of instruction, known as shuangyu jiaoyu (literally ‘bilingual education’), has gained so much momentum Á although not without controversy Á that it is now ‘rattling across the country like a juggernaut’ (Hu, 2008: 196). In September 2001, the Ministry of Education issued a circular instructing all universities and colleges to use English as the medium of instruction for certain subjects, including information technology, biotechnology, finance, foreign trade, economics and law.