over the past several decades english has become the de facto lin- gua franca of globalization, a phenomenon taken up by a growing number of researchers in english linguistics and english-as-a- second language (esl) studies. braj kachru, david crystal and sandra lee mckay are just a few of the well-known scholars who have been involved in this area. there are also entire journals, such as world englishes and english today, devoted solely to the study of english across cultures. the increasing prominence of this field of study, together with the growing presence of asian students in new zealand universities, was the impetus behind a conference held at the university of auckland in october 2005, entitled "the value of english for asian students and the ''''added value'''' of studying in new zealand. " a group of scholars based in new zeal-and and east asia were invited to the conference''''topresent their research related to this topic. it is from this conference that the present collection of theoretical papers and case studies emerged.
目录
Part I English in Asia: Past, present and future Imperialism and the imperialism of English Variation in English: Speaking, writing, literacy (practices)and language change English in Asia: Access, accents and attitudesFraming the future of English in Asia.. Local practices, virtualspaces and global forces Part II Language and culture contact in Asian educational settings Activity Theory: A framework for illuminating the socioctiltural complexity of engaging with a new academic community of practice Package teaching: Linguistic systems and situational contexts of a second language Developing Chinese students' learner autonomy in cultural context ……
摘要
As an historian, I am perhaps getting into the mood or the mode of the imperialist when I venture into fields well covered by students of language and sociolinguistics. As those we might properly call imperialists so often did, I am moving into an unfamiliar field, though not with their optimism. Perhaps the risk is worth taking, though it may be more exciting for me than fpr you. My writings have been about Southeast Asia, which perhaps gives me a bit of a footing, and more particularly about the colonial regimes in Southeast Asia. I have also tried to write about imperialism more generally, partly in the hope that Southeast Asia's history has something to contribute to a wider debate. My book on Imperialism in Southeast Asia offered what some will see as a narrow definition of 'imperialism,' designed to try to make it useful not only as a topic but as an instrument of study: it focused on political control in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. I have since tried to apply it to other parts of Asia, while in other books treating what may in some sense be seen as successors of ……
