Record Nr.

UNINA9910458040603321

Titolo

English Language Education Across Greater China / / Anwei Feng

Pubbl/distr/stampa


Blue Ridge Summit, PA : , : Multilingual Matters, , [2011]
©2011

ISBN

1-84769-351-2

1-283-14770-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (298 p.)

Collana

Bilingual Education & Bilingualism

Disciplina

428.0071/051

Soggetti

Bilingualism

English language -- Social aspects -- China

English language -- Study and teaching -- China

English language -- Study and teaching -- Foreign speakers

Language acquisition

English language - Study and teaching - China

English language - Foreign speakers - Study and teaching - China

English language - Social aspects

English

Languages & Literatures

English Language

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Contributors -- Foreword -- Chapter 1. Introduction: The Apex of ‘the Third Wave’ – English Language across Greater China -- Chapter 2. The English Language in Mainland China: A Sociolinguistic Profile -- Chapter 3. English-knowing Bilingualism in Singapore: Economic Pragmatism, Ethnic Relations and Class -- Chapter 4. English Language in Taiwan: An Examination of its Use in Society and Education in Schools -- Chapter 5. Improving the Standards and Promoting the Use of English in Hong Kong: Issues, Problems and Prospects -- Chapter 6. English Use and Education in Macao -- Chapter 7. The ‘English Curriculum Standards’ in China: Rationales and Issues

-- Chapter 8. Primary School English Language Teaching in South China: Past, Present and Future -- Chapter 9. English Immersion in Mainland China -- Chapter 10. Family Background and English Learning at Compulsory Stage in Shanghai -- Chapter 11. Economic Development and the Growing Importance of the English Language in Guangxi -- Chapter 12. Trilingual Education Policy Ideals and Realities for the Naxi in Rural Yunnan -- Chapter 13. Learning English as a Third Language by Uyghur Students in Xinjiang: A Blessing in Disguise? -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

This volume is the first to offer a comprehensive and, at the same time, in-depth examination of the spread of English and English language education across Greater China. It consists of two parts. Part 1 presents rich sociolinguistic data for easy comparisons between mainland China, Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macao, while Part 2 explores in depth the phenomena inside mainland China to provide contrastive analysis of English language use and education in economically booming areas such as Shanghai and Guangdong and underdeveloped regions like Xinjiang and Yunnan. With the descriptive, comparative and analytical accounts of different territories ranging from nation-states to small villages in remote areas, theories on the spread of English, second/third language acquisition and identity are challenged with new concepts proposed and established.

Record Nr.

UNICAMPANIAVAN0125308

Autore

Cardin, Franco

Titolo

Elementary Symplectic Topology and Mechanics / Franco Cardin

Pubbl/distr/stampa


Cham, : Springer, : Unione Matematica Italiana, 2015

Titolo uniforme

Elementary Symplectic Topology and Mechanics

Descrizione fisica

xvii, 222 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

Soggetti

53Dxx - Symplectic geometry, contact geometry [MSC 2020]

37Jxx - Dynamical aspects of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems [MSC 2020]

58Exx - Variational problems in infinite-dimensional spaces [MSC 2020]