East Asian Englishes

Abstract

The English language situation in East Asia is being vitalized with a remarkable increase in the number of students learning the language in the whole region. While China witnesses an estimated 350 million people studying and using English, Japan emphasizes English competence in its officially initiated globally minded Japanese development project. Korea and Taiwan are constantly committed to strengthening their primary-school English language teaching (ELT) programs. In other parts of Asia where English serves as a language of intranational communication and where ELT spreads and succeeds, national varieties have invariably emerged. Although English is designated as an international (not intranational) language in East Asia, indications are that what amounts to a national variety is developing in each country in this region, too. This chapter presents a brief description of the current English language situation and ELT innovations while referring to some structural and pragmatic features often noticed in English in East Asia.

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