English as a Global Language – Page 6

Hottest English teaching method

Carrie Chen's successful chalk-and-talk method In my previous post, I discussed the celebrity status of star teachers in Taiwan. Although their good looks and personality do play a key role…

Jackie ChangMarch 12, 2013

Language learning

English-teaching superstars

Star teacher Ruby Hsu (Source: ruby.com.tw) The global English language learning boom has resulted not only in a huge number of English learners but also created a tremendous demand for…

Jackie ChangFebruary 26, 2013

Language at work

Africa Town, Guangzhou (Source: ChinaSmack) What does an urban middle-class male university graduate from Conakry, the capital of Guinea, have in common with a peasant woman with little education from…

Ingrid PillerFebruary 19, 2013

English as a global language

Marketing English as the global language

"美語是通往世界最近的路" (American English, for children, is the royal road to the world): An English educator promises the world Taiwan is enthralled with learning American English. One of the reasons for…

Jackie ChangFebruary 8, 2013

English as a global language

Is English improving lives in a remote Indonesian village?

The house of the English high school teacher in the village in Sulawesi where Pasassung conducted his fieldwork In a recent post, I reviewed language policy research that shows how…

Ingrid PillerFebruary 1, 2013

Multilingual families

Victory in battle to stream German content to USA

Maxdome This is a follow-up entry to a previous entry in which I wrote about the relationship between family language learning and Easy Hide IP, a proxy server software that…

Christof Demont-HeinrichJanuary 25, 2013

English as a global language

Taiwan’s love affair with American English

Ad for a private English language school in Taiwan: the normalization of American English is obvious in the name and imagery There is no denying the fact that English has…

Jackie ChangJanuary 22, 2013

English as a global language

آموزش سوپرمارکتی زبان های خارجی

Constructing language learning as global choice on melale.ir Persian version of Vahid Parvaresh, "Supermarket Language Learning"; translated by Behnam Keimasi (بهنام کیماسی) در ایران، همانند بسیار دیگری از کشورها، دولت به…

Vahid ParvareshJanuary 16, 2013

English as a global language

English for everyone is unfair

Promoting English language learning: billboard for private early English instruction in Wuhan Knowledge of English has come to be seen as the key talent of the 21st century, a way…

Ingrid PillerJanuary 11, 2013

Multilingual families

Early study abroad students in young adulthood

Jogiyuhak (early study abroad) is very popular in South Korea (Source: chosun.com) Readers of Language on the Move will be familiar with South Korea’s English fever, the sweeping zeal for…

Bong Jeong LeeJanuary 8, 2013

Intercultural communication

The exotic Chinese language

Chinese: What does the Chinese language mean to Western tourists visiting China? Ingrid’s blog post “Character challenge” has set me thinking about Chinese language learning these days. I have found…

Chen Xiaoxiao 陈潇潇January 4, 2013

English as a global language

Supermarket language learning

Constructing language learning as global choice on melale.ir In Iran, as in many other countries, the state has traditionally been a very powerful actor in the field of second language…

Vahid ParvareshDecember 10, 2012

English as a global language

Multilingual Hong Kong

Multilingual Hong Kong (Katherine Chen and Gray Carper, 2005-2007) During our visit to Hong Kong, Kimie and I met Katherine Chen, who introduced us to a sociolinguistic film she has…

Ingrid PillerDecember 3, 2012

Intercultural communication

Intercultural Communication on Chinese TV

The recent Intercultural Communication Conference at Zhongnan University of Law and Economics was covered by Wuhan TV's evening news. You can either watch the full show on the WHTV website or the…

Language on the MoveNovember 26, 2012

Next Gen Literacies

Losing voice in academic writing

Losing your voice or learning academic writing? (Source: business2community.com) “A latent function of the educational system is to instil linguistic insecurity, to discriminate linguistically, to channel children in ways that…

Grace Chu-Lin ChangNovember 13, 2012

English as a global language

Seeing Asians speaking English

Who of these two men do you expect to speak better English?* I am very much looking forward to attending the International Conference on Research and Applications of Intercultural Communication…

Ingrid PillerNovember 9, 2012

Hottest English teaching method

English-teaching superstars

Grassroots multilingualism

Marketing English as the global language

Victory in battle to stream German content to USA

Taiwan’s love affair with American English

آموزش سوپرمارکتی زبان های خارجی

Early study abroad students in young adulthood

The exotic Chinese language

Supermarket language learning

Multilingual Hong Kong

Intercultural Communication on Chinese TV

Losing voice in academic writing

Seeing Asians speaking English

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