The Comparison of English Learning between Two Ethnic Groups

Lin, Ching-Ying; Chen, Yongming

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“…Moreover, 68.4% of children in rural areas cannot afford to attend children English language schools because they are from financially disadvantaged families; in urban areas, most children from richer families attend children English language schools. Similar results were also found in many studies (Chen, 2011;Lee & Wang, 2007;Liao, 2008;Lin & Chen, 2013;Sun;2012;Wang, 2009;Yang, Y. F., 2009) on the current practice on English curriculum and instruction at remote schools in Taiwan.…”

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The Ideology of The-Best-English-Teaching-Method in Taiwan's Children English Language Schools

Chang

2017

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Taiwanese people's motivation to learn English is a desire to communicate: a major obstacle to the mastery of spoken English has been the lack of opportunities to speak it. The traditional English teaching method cannot produce fluent English speakers. English teaching methodologies, such as English-only and Communicative Language Teaching (CLT), have been widely adopted as practical and the best way to acquire English speaking proficiency in children English language schools, to the point where they are taken for granted by many Taiwanese people. The central argument of this study is that the evaluation of the so-called the-best-English-teaching-method in children English language schools and as common practice in Taiwanese society is ideological. To explore the ideological concept of the-best-English-teaching-method used in children English language schools, Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) was employed to analyze data drawn from children English language schools' promotional materials or advertisements. The results indicate the promotion of the-best-English-teaching-method by children English language schools has resulted in social injustice, such as native speaker ideology, native and non-native division, white and non-white division, and English proficiency gap in the rich and the poor and urban and rural areas. It is hoped that the results of this study can enable Taiwanese people to escape the ideologies which have been taken for granted for so long.

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Chang

2017

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“…Fourth, there is a considerable gap in urban and rural elementary school English instruction, and the gap is widening (Chen, 2011;Lee, 2013;Lee, 2020;Lin & Chen, 2013;Sun, 2012). Lee (2020) argues that the English language proficiency of students from underprivileged families lags far behind that of students from better-off families, as many parents in rural areas cannot afford to send their children to private English language schools.…”

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The Ideology of English-as-the-global-language in Taiwan’s Private English Language Schools

Chang¹

2021

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English is regarded as a key to globalization or internationalization and future success for Taiwan and its people. One of the most extraordinary results of English-as-the-global-language of English teaching and learning in Taiwan is private English language schools are ubiquitous. Research into how private English language schools weld together English-as-the-global-language and English teaching and learning has yet received much attention. This study aims to investigate how Taiwan’s private English language schools’ television commercials market English-as-the-global-language and what the underlying ideologies of English-as-the-global-language are. Exploring the ideology of English-as-the-global-language, Critical Discourse Analysis was employed herein to analyze 106 private English language school television commercials produced from 2000 to 2020 in Taiwan. The results indicate that English as the key to internationalization and future success is an ideology. Moreover, the ideological concept of English-as-the-global-language is central to English teaching and learning ideologies in Taiwan, such as an early start in English learning, English-only as the ideal English teaching method, and native-speaker norms in English teaching and learning.

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The Ideology of the-Best-English-Teaching-Method in Taiwan’s Children English Language Schools

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Chang²

2017

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Taiwanese people’s motivation to learn English is a desire to communicate: a major obstacle to the mastery of spoken English has been the lack of opportunities to speak it. The traditional English teaching method cannot produce fluent English speakers. English teaching methodologies, such as English-only and Communicative Language Teaching (CLT), have been widely adopted as practical and the best way to acquire English speaking proficiency in children English language schools, to the point where they are taken for granted by many Taiwanese people. The central argument of this study is that the evaluation of the so-called the-best-English-teaching-method in children English language schools and as common practice in Taiwanese society is ideological. To explore the ideological concept of the-best-English-teaching-method used in children English language schools, Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) was employed to analyze data drawn from children English language schools’ promotional materials or advertisements. The results indicate the promotion of the-best-English-teaching-method by children English language schools has resulted in social injustice, such as native speaker ideology, native and non-native division, white and non-white division, and English proficiency gap in the rich and the poor and urban and rural areas. It is hoped that the results of this study can enable Taiwanese people to escape the ideologies which have been taken for granted for so long.

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The Comparison of English Learning between Two Ethnic Groups

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The Ideology of The-Best-English-Teaching-Method in Taiwan's Children English Language Schools

The Ideology of The-Best-English-Teaching-Method in Taiwan's Children English Language Schools

The Ideology of English-as-the-global-language in Taiwan’s Private English Language Schools

The Ideology of the-Best-English-Teaching-Method in Taiwan’s Children English Language Schools

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