Asian English

Author : Handoyo Puji Widodo,Alistair Wood,Deepti Gupta
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317626527

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Asian English Language Classrooms by Handoyo Puji Widodo,Alistair Wood,Deepti Gupta Pdf

The teaching of English in the Asian context is always challenging and dynamic because both teachers and learners have diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds. Equally important, where English is not widely used outside the classroom, English language classrooms are an authentic site of learner engagement. For these reasons, for all those concerned with contemporary English language teaching (ELT) in Asia, Asian English Language Classrooms: Where Theory and Practice Meet, provides an account of theoretical orientations and practices in the teaching of English to multilingual speakers whose primary language is not English. While covering the fundamental ELT areas (e.g., the teaching of language skills, educational literature, the use of technology in ELT, the role of pragmatics in ELT, social psychology of the language classroom, and language classroom management) with which every language teacher and teacher trainer must be concerned, this volume showcases how particular orientations shape ELT practices. We believe that practicing English teachers must have a heightened awareness of the theory behind their practice. At the same time, the theoretical stance must be firmly anchored in actual classrooms. Containing newly commissioned chapters written by well-regarded and emerging scholars, this book will appeal not only to beginning teachers or teachers in training but also to established teachers around Asia where English is used as a lingua franca. If you are a student teacher of English or an English teacher who would like to see what other progressive teachers like you are doing across Asia, this is the book you have been looking for.

Author : Andy Kirkpatrick,Wang Lixun
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107134683

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Is English an Asian Language? by Andy Kirkpatrick,Wang Lixun Pdf

A comprehensive account of how English is being used and reshaped by multilingual Asian speakers to fit their everyday needs.

Author : Robert Jackson Baumgardner
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0252064933

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South Asian English by Robert Jackson Baumgardner Pdf

This volumes examines selected formal and functional characteristics of English in South Asia, where English was introduced in the sixteenth century and now has over fifty million users. An integrative and interdisciplinary collection, the books brings together invited papers by acclaimed creative writers from India and Pakistan and by international linguists and English educators. The five major facets of South Asian English discussed are context and uses: structure and contact; functions and innovations; the curriculum; and the multilingual's creativity. The volume provides current perspectives on complex issues of concern to teachers and students of world Englishes.

Author : Myles Chilton,Steve Clark,Yukari Yoshihara
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789811635137

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Asian English by Myles Chilton,Steve Clark,Yukari Yoshihara Pdf

Contesting the idea that the study of Anglophone literature and literary studies is simply a foreign import in Asia, this collection addresses the genealogies of textual critique and institutionalized forms of teaching of English language and literature in Asia through the 19th and 20th centuries, along with an examination of how its present options and possible future directions relate to these historical contexts. It argues that the establishment of Anglophone literature in Asia did not simply “happen”: there were extra-literary and -academic forces at work, inserting and domesticating in Asian universities both the English language and Anglo-American literature, and their attendant cultural and political values. Offering new perspectives for ongoing conversations surrounding the globalization of Anglophone literature in literary and cultural studies, the book also considers the practicalities of teaching both the language and its canon of classic texts, and that the historical formation and shape of English studies in Asia offers lessons that relate not only to the discipline but also may be applied to the humanities as a whole. ​

Author : Eeshan Ali,Md. Rakibul Islam
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527539846

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Diaspora Poetics in South Asian English Writings by Eeshan Ali,Md. Rakibul Islam Pdf

This volume brings together various discussions on various South Asian Diaspora writers of diverse sociopolitical backgrounds. It provides perspectives drawn from border studies, philosophical studies, and regional issues of South Asia.

Author : Amy Tak-yee Lai
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443816212

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Asian English Writers of Chinese Origin by Amy Tak-yee Lai Pdf

This is the first book to bring together nine Asian English writers of Chinese descent from Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong: Catherine Lim, Christine Lim, Ee Tiang Hong, Kee Thuan Chye, Lee Kok Liang, Shirley Lim, Timothy Mo, Xu Xi and Agnes Lam. It discusses how the withdrawal of colonial power and the implementation of nation-building policies impact race/ethnicity, class and language in these former British colonies. The last chapters take a special look at postcolonialism and gender politics, and explore how Chinese women, at home or abroad, defy the Orientalist gaze and the native patriarchy.

Author : Jamie Shinhee Lee,Andrew Moody
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Asia
ISBN : 9888083562

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English in Asian Popular Culture by Jamie Shinhee Lee,Andrew Moody Pdf

The volume is a collection of research articles on creative, performative, and commercial uses of the English language in various domains of Asian popular culture. It provides a sociolinguistically contemporary snapshot of how English is variously adopted and adapted on local pop culture scenes in East Asia, South Asia and South East Asia.

Author : Kingsley Bolton,Werner Botha,Andy Kirkpatrick
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 928 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781118791653

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The Handbook of Asian Englishes by Kingsley Bolton,Werner Botha,Andy Kirkpatrick Pdf

The first volume of its kind, focusing on the sociolinguistic and socio-political issues surrounding Asian Englishes The Handbook of Asian Englishes provides wide-ranging coverage of the historical and cultural context, contemporary dynamics, and linguistic features of English in use throughout the Asian region. This first-of-its-kind volume offers a wide-ranging exploration of the English language throughout nations in South Asia, Southeast Asia, and East Asia. Contributions by a team of internationally-recognized linguists and scholars of Asian Englishes and Asian languages survey existing works and review new and emerging areas of research in the field. Edited by internationally renowned scholars in the field and structured in four parts, this Handbook explores the status and functions of English in the educational institutions, legal systems, media, popular cultures, and religions of diverse Asian societies. In addition to examining nation-specific topics, this comprehensive volume presents articles exploring pan-Asian issues such as English in Asian schools and universities, English and language policies in the Asian region, and the statistics of English across Asia. Up-to-date research addresses the impact of English as an Asian lingua franca, globalization and Asian Englishes, the dynamics of multilingualism, and more. Examines linguistic history, contemporary linguistic issues, and English in the Outer and Expanding Circles of Asia Focuses on the rapidly-growing complexities of English throughout Asia Includes reviews of the new frontiers of research in Asian Englishes, including the impact of globalization and popular culture Presents an innovative survey of Asian Englishes in one comprehensive volume Serving as an important contribution to fields such as contact linguistics, World Englishes, sociolinguistics, and Asian language studies, The Handbook of Asian Englishes is an invaluable reference resource for undergraduate and graduate students, researchers, and instructors across these areas. Winner of the 2021 PROSE Humanities Category for Language & Linguistics

Author : Azirah Hashim,Gerhard Leitner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781351590273

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English in Southeast Asia and ASEAN by Azirah Hashim,Gerhard Leitner Pdf

English in Southeast Asia and ASEAN embeds English in its various regional Southeast Asian and political ASEAN language habitats. Addressing the history, developmental stages and contacts with other languages, it provides in-depth information on the region and its political organization. In doing so, it analyzes the geo-political division of the region between former Anglophone and non-Anglophone colonies and shows that this distinction has led to considerable differences in the status and texture of English. This analysis includes the role and impact of American English in mainland and maritime Southeast Asia to highlight the linguistic properties of English and its linguistic and sociopolitical development, English used in specific domains, language policies and concludes with the future of English and future challenges. This book therefore provides an integrative survey of the various roles of English in ASEAN member states and studies the transformation of entire language habitats, including the major national and regional languages that participate in this process. It also explains how new societies emerge with their conflicting identities and their aspirations to act regionally or even globally and is a valuable resource for scholars and students in the fields of World Englishes, Asian Studies and those interested in language contact, policy and planning.

Author : Cathy Spagnoli
Publisher : Tulika Books
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Asia
ISBN : 8181463544

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World Of Asian Stories: A Teaching Resource by Cathy Spagnoli Pdf

The World of Asian Stories is a continuing campaign for storytelling as an effective and non-intrusive tool for sensitisation. This omnibus of stories and storytelling traditions from 43 countries across Asia provides an overview of methods and the multitude of stylistic variations. The book then embarks on a journey through fast-changing landscapes of unique, yet unifying cultural experience, presented through the distinctive voices of people. The focus is on the individual over the din of the dominant. This resource book invites teachers, parents and children to explore storytelling at home and in school. It introduces the reader to basic guidelines, offers tips and suggestions on technique, and provides an abundant pool of stories to draw from and activities to contextualise them. The visuals, too, offer a wealth of reference points. Illustrations are quirky and perceptive, subtly acquiring the flavours of the lands through which they journey. They complement the (sometimes whimsical) vagaries of the stories, creating an ambience of truthful, unassuming and straight-from-the heart storytelling.

Author : Srinivas Aravamudan
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781400826858

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Guru English by Srinivas Aravamudan Pdf

Guru English is a bold reconceptualization of the scope and meaning of cosmopolitanism, examining the language of South Asian religiosity as it has flourished both inside and outside of its original context for the past two hundred years. The book surveys a specific set of religious vocabularies from South Asia that, Aravamudan argues, launches a different kind of cosmopolitanism into global use. Using "Guru English" as a tagline for the globalizing idiom that has grown up around these religions, Aravamudan traces the diffusion and transformation of South Asian religious discourses as they shuttled between East and West through English-language use. The book demonstrates that cosmopolitanism is not just a secular Western "discourse that results from a disenchantment with religion, but something that can also be refashioned from South Asian religion when these materials are put into dialogue with contemporary social move-ments and literary texts. Aravamudan looks at "religious forms of neoclassicism, nationalism, Romanticism, postmodernism, and nuclear millenarianism, bringing together figures such as Swami Vivekananda, Sri Aurobindo, Mahatma Gandhi, and Deepak Chopra with Rudyard Kipling, James Joyce, Robert Oppenheimer, and Salman Rushdie. Guru English analyzes writers and gurus, literary texts and religious movements, and the political uses of religion alongside the literary expressions of religious teachers, showing the cosmopolitan interconnections between the Indian subcontinent, the British Empire, and the American New Age.

Author : Tasleem Shakur,Karen D'Souza
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Asians in literature
ISBN : 0954446305

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Picturing South Asian Culture in English by Tasleem Shakur,Karen D'Souza Pdf

Author : Jim King,Seiko Harumi
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781788926782

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East Asian Perspectives on Silence in English Language Education by Jim King,Seiko Harumi Pdf

Silence is a key pedagogical issue in language education. Seen by some as a space for thinking and reflection during the learning process, for others silence represents a threat, inhibiting target language interaction which is so vital during second language acquisition. This book eschews stereotypes and generalisations about why so many learners from East Asia seem either reluctant or unable to speak in English by providing a state-of-the art account of current research into the complex and ambiguous issue of silence in language education. The innovative research included in this volume focuses on silence both as a barrier to successful learning and as a resource that may in some cases facilitate language acquisition. The book offers a fresh perspective on ways to facilitate classroom interaction while also embracing silence and it touches on key pedagogical concepts such as teacher cognition, the role of task features, classroom interactional approaches, pedagogical intervention and socialisation, willingness to communicate, as well as psychological and sociocultural factors. Each of the book’s chapters include self-reflection and discussion tasks, as well as annotated bibliographies for further reading.

Author : Mimi Chan,Ray Harris
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1991-08-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9622092829

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Asian Voices in English by Mimi Chan,Ray Harris Pdf

A selection of papers presented at the Symposium on English Literature by Asian authors entitled Asian Voices in English held at The University of Hong Kong, 27-30 April 1990. Two kinds of writing experience are focused upon: one is the experience of post-colonial writers, who are re-appropriating the English language for their own cultural purposes. The other is the experience of immigrant writers, who bring an Asian view to bear on the culture of the English-speaking countries in which they live.

Author : Rajeev S. Patke,Philip Holden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2009-09-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135257613

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The Routledge Concise History of Southeast Asian Writing in English by Rajeev S. Patke,Philip Holden Pdf

The Routledge Concise History of Southeast Asian Writing in English traces the development of literature in the region within its historical and cultural contexts. This volume explores creative writing in English across different genres and media, establishing connections from the colonial activity of the early modern period through to contemporary writing across Southeast Asia, focusing especially on the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong. In this critical guide, Rajeev S. Patke and Philip Holden: interweave text and context through the history of creative writing in the region examine language use and variation, making use of illuminating examples from speech, poetry and fictional prose trace the impact of historical, political and cultural events engage with current debates on national consciousness, globalization, modernity and postmodernism provide useful features including a glossary, further reading section and chapter summaries. Direct and clearly written, this Concise History guides readers through key topics while presenting a unique, original synthesis of history and practice in Southeast Asian writing in English. It is the ideal starting point for students and all those seeking a better understanding of Southeast Asian literatures and cultures.