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Doing English in Asia : Global Literature and Culture.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Lanham : Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (183 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780739192016
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Doing English in AsiaDDC classification:
  • 428.007105
LOC classification:
  • PE1068.A7D65 2016
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction. Toward a Cosmopolitan Everyman: Cultural Negotiations of English Literature Teachers in East Asia -- PART I. LANGUAGE POLITICS ACROSS ASIA -- Chapter 1. "Exophony" in the Midst of the Mother Tongue: Resources between Languages -- Chapter 2. Unfinished English: Stories from the Other Other -- Chapter 3. Using Chopsticks to Read Knife 'n' Fork English: Teaching American Literature in Taiwan -- PART II. CULTURE AND LANGUAGE STUDY IN TAIWAN -- Chapter 4. Teaching Early British Literature in Southern Taiwan -- Chapter 5. Teaching English Language and Literature in the Asia-Pacific Region: Environmental and Ecocritical Contexts -- Chapter 6. Interacting with "Other" Places in Modern Poetry through Hypermedia -- PART III. DRAMA AND ETHOS BEYOND BORDERS -- Chapter 7. Shakespeare's Cymbeline in the College English Classroom during the Sunflower Student Movement -- Chapter 8. MOOC "Global/Local Shakespeare": New Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare in Taiwan and Beyond -- Chapter 9. Modern Renaissance Education in Taiwan's Departments of Foreign Languages -- Index -- About the Editors and Contributors.
Summary: This edited collection examines the effect of globalization on the curriculum of Asian universities. As knowledge of the English language has increasingly been understood as necessary to excel in international business, a number of Asian universities have replaced the traditional study of English literature and culture with applied English or English for specified purposes. Contributors to this collection tackle the question of how teachers in Asia should balance the need for their students to understand English culture with the pressure to prepare students for employment in this changing environment.
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction. Toward a Cosmopolitan Everyman: Cultural Negotiations of English Literature Teachers in East Asia -- PART I. LANGUAGE POLITICS ACROSS ASIA -- Chapter 1. "Exophony" in the Midst of the Mother Tongue: Resources between Languages -- Chapter 2. Unfinished English: Stories from the Other Other -- Chapter 3. Using Chopsticks to Read Knife 'n' Fork English: Teaching American Literature in Taiwan -- PART II. CULTURE AND LANGUAGE STUDY IN TAIWAN -- Chapter 4. Teaching Early British Literature in Southern Taiwan -- Chapter 5. Teaching English Language and Literature in the Asia-Pacific Region: Environmental and Ecocritical Contexts -- Chapter 6. Interacting with "Other" Places in Modern Poetry through Hypermedia -- PART III. DRAMA AND ETHOS BEYOND BORDERS -- Chapter 7. Shakespeare's Cymbeline in the College English Classroom during the Sunflower Student Movement -- Chapter 8. MOOC "Global/Local Shakespeare": New Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare in Taiwan and Beyond -- Chapter 9. Modern Renaissance Education in Taiwan's Departments of Foreign Languages -- Index -- About the Editors and Contributors.

This edited collection examines the effect of globalization on the curriculum of Asian universities. As knowledge of the English language has increasingly been understood as necessary to excel in international business, a number of Asian universities have replaced the traditional study of English literature and culture with applied English or English for specified purposes. Contributors to this collection tackle the question of how teachers in Asia should balance the need for their students to understand English culture with the pressure to prepare students for employment in this changing environment.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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