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Wu, Ming-Hsuan; Leung, Genevieve; Yang, Jhih-Kai; Hsieh, Ivy Haoyin; Lin, Kelly – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2022
In a broader context where English is marketed as a desirable product of consumption, hiring English speakers as language teachers and de facto cultural ambassadors is a common practice in some East Asian countries. This paper investigates how 20 self-identified Asian American teachers in Taiwan teaching English in local schools wrestle with the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Asian Americans, Language Teachers, English (Second Language)
Lin, Shumin; Wu, Ming-Hsuan; Leung, Genevieve – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2023
While race in TESOL has gained traction in recent years, less research has focused on Asian American teachers working in Asian contexts, not to mention Chinese adoptees from the US working as English teachers in Asia. Drawing from our larger study on the work narratives of Asian Americans teaching English in Taiwan, this paper examines how Chinese…
Descriptors: Adoption, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Asian American Immigrant Parents Supporting Children with Autism: Perceptions of Fathers and Mothers
Wang, Hui-Ting; West, Elizabeth A. – International Journal of Whole Schooling, 2016
Asian American immigrant parents supporting children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) has been understudied. The purpose of this qualitative study was to probe the perceptions of Mandarin-speaking immigrant mothers and fathers raising children with ASD in the United States. Ten participating parents were first-generation native…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Immigrants, Autism, Parent Role
Thomas, Paul – Cogent Education, 2017
The discourse of equity and egalitarianism has a long pedigree in Norway. However, this discourse has recently come under severe strain as evidenced by the growing segregation of schools along ethnic lines in the capital Oslo. This paper considers the portrayal of non-westerners in four English textbooks used in the teaching of English as a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary Schools, English (Second Language), Textbook Content
McEachron, Gail; Bhatti, Ghazala – Global Education Review, 2015
Global research has shown the persistence of inequality with regard to accessing curriculum with a view to obtaining suitable work and making useful contributions to society. The intersection of race, gender, language and low socio-economic levels creates situations which often marginalize ethnic minorities in school settings (Freire, 1968; Nieto…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Immigrants
Hansen Edwards, Jette G.; Zampini, Mary L.; Cunningham, Caitlin – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2019
This study examines language attitudes towards different varieties of English through listener judgments of speaker and speech traits; in addition, the study explores the relationship of these judgments to the intelligibility, as well as the perceived accentedness and comprehensibility, of varieties of Asian English and General American English.…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Asians, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Chen, Meiren; Bang, Hyeyoung – Journal of International Students, 2020
In this study we used grounded theory framework to explore how preparation for studying abroad affects the academic success of East Asian undergraduate students in U.S. universities. Based on interviews with 12 participants from China, Hong Kong, South Korea, and Taiwan, we found that knowledge of English language and American culture, which is…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Foreign Students, Foreign Countries, Study Abroad
Ee, Jongyeon – Bilingual Research Journal, 2019
The number of Asian immigrants in the United States has increased remarkably over the past decades and now accounts for nearly 30% of all immigrants in the country. However, the umbrella term "Asians" includes a wide range of variety. Acknowledging diversity among Asians, this study explores advantages of Asian bilingualism in the…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Labor Market, Cultural Pluralism, Immigrants
Kutlu, Ethan; Tiv, Mehrgol; Wulff, Stefanie; Titone, Debra – Applied Linguistics, 2022
"Standard" varieties are often perceived as morally superior compared with "nonstandard" varieties (Hill 2008). Consequently, these differences lead to ideologies that racialize "nonstandard" varieties (Rosa 2016), and increase the negative stereotypes towards "nonstandard" varieties (Giles and Watson 2013).…
Descriptors: Race, Standard Spoken Usage, Language Attitudes, Language Variation
Castro, Marjorie E. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2008
Chinese and American exchanges introduced a Westchester County school district to a different culture and sharpened their view of their own educational experience. Through the forward thinking of Andy Spano, the county executive, and Daisy Yau, the director of Asian-American affairs and business development for the county, Westchester County had…
Descriptors: School Districts, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Counties
Chaipuapae, Panjanit – ProQuest LLC, 2019
In Asia, English is used as a lingua franca (ELF; Kirkpatrick, 2010). For Thai university graduates to be successful in their future careers, being able to understand various accents with Thailand's major trading partners, particularly American, Chinese, and Japanese, seems vital. As a listening test which includes these accents is needed, the…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Asians, English (Second Language), Language Role
Antonio, Abigail F.; Bacang, Bernardita G.; Rillo, Richard M.; Alieto, Ericson O.; Caspillo, Warrelen D. C. – Online Submission, 2019
This study is one of the pioneers in investigating and analyzing the orthographical conventions/norms of the outer circle Asian Englishes using one of the largest databases of English corpus, the Global Web-based English (GloWbE). This study extends the analysis of the current orthographical norms of the new varieties to their colonial parents.…
Descriptors: Language Variation, English (Second Language), Computational Linguistics, Databases
Tangkitjaroenkun, Thanis; Nawarat, Nongyao; Jatuporn, Omsin – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2022
The authors of this paper argue that to promote multicultural education, multicultural literature can be a very useful tool. Since the ultimate goal of multicultural education is to achieve a more equal and more inclusive society, the literature of Southeast Asia, regarded as the true "minority" literature, should be seriously taken into…
Descriptors: English Literature, United States Literature, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Volunteer Voice, 1990
This document consists of five issues of a newsletter of an English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) and refugee acculturation program operating in Tacoma and Seattle, Washington. Articles include: a bibliography of textbooks recommended to ESL teachers and tutors; professional news and announcements; a discussion of lesson planning; an explanation of…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Annotated Bibliographies, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques
Egitim, Soyhan; Garcia, Travis – English Language Teaching, 2021
This study aims to understand Japanese university students' perceptions of foreign English teachers (FETs) through a two-phased exploratory sequential mixed-methods design. During the initial phase, a quantitative survey was performed with first and second-year Japanese university students (n=377). Despite a lack of precision and a high dispersion…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Language Teachers