Projects
Investigators:
Dr Jeffrey Gil
Summary:
This project analyses China’s promotion of Chinese language and culture as an exercise in soft power, that is an attempt to make China attractive and appealing to the world.
It focuses on Confucius Institutes and Confucius Classrooms, the Chinese language and culture centres set up in universities and schools around the world with the support of the Chinese government.
This project maps the scope and scale of the Confucius Institutes and Classrooms and evaluates their impact on Chinese language and culture education and other countries' policy towards China.
Category:
Applied Linguistics
Investigators:
Dr Jeffrey Gil
Summary:
This project investigates the worldwide interest in Chinese language learning and its implications for the future of English as a global language.
It contextualises the worldwide interest in Chinese language learning within the conceptual framework of the global ecology of languages, analyses the factors driving it, then uses these findings to articulate possible scenarios for the continuation of English as a global language, coexistence of English and Chinese as global languages and the replacement of English as a global language by Chinese.
Categories:
Applied Linguistics
TESOL
Investigators:
Dr Jeffrey Gil
Summary:
This project explores English language education in China, home to the world’s largest population of English language learners.
It seeks to contextualise English language education policies and practices within broader historical, political and cultural trends in China, and track how these policies and practices have changed over time.
Categories:
TESOL
Applied Linguistics
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