Maintaining and Setting Standards and Language Variation in the Asian Pacific Region
Edited by Amy B.M. Tsui
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 12:1 (2002) vi, 184 pp.
Amy B.M. Tsui
List of John Benjamins publications for which Amy B.M. Tsui plays a role.
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Subjects Altaic languages | Language policy | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
2023 Michael Halliday: Understanding language in education Mapping “Language" in Education: Special issue of the Journal Language, Context and Text 5:2 (2023), pp. 271–278 | Introduction
It is a huge honour and an immense privilege to contribute to this special issue on Michael Halliday’s hitherto unpublished work, “Exploring the ‘language’ part of language education”, not least because the paper was conceptualised in response to what he had observed over a period of three years… read more
2005 ESL Teachers' Questions and Corpus Evidence International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 10:3, pp. 335–356 | Article
In the last ten years, more and more attention has been paid to the importance of raising the language awareness of language teachers. This is an area in which corpus linguistics has a unique contribution to make. With the help of a concordancer, linguistic features that may be overlooked can be… read more
2004 In preparation: What teachers have always wanted to know — and how corpora can help How to Use Corpora in Language Teaching, Sinclair, John McH. (ed.), pp. 39–61 | Article
2002 Setting language benchmarks: Whose benchmark? Maintaining and Setting Standards and Language Variation in the Asian Pacific Region, Tsui, Amy B.M. (ed.), pp. 63–76 | Article
This paper considers Hong Kong’s benchmark language assessments for English teachers. It asks whose standard of English the government, business community, examinations authority, and the teaching profession itself expect teachers to measure up to. As well as examining documentation from these… read more
2002 Setting standards and language variation: A dilemma for language education Maintaining and Setting Standards and Language Variation in the Asian Pacific Region, Tsui, Amy B.M. (ed.), pp. 1–11 | Article
In recent years, the setting of standards or benchmarks for teachers as well as for learners has been brought into education as one of the key mechanisms for accountability and quality assurance. Language standards setting is one of the top priorities for policy makers. This paper points out that… read more
1993 Interpreting Multi-act Moves in Spoken Discourse Text and Technology: In honour of John Sinclair, Baker, Mona, Gill Francis and Elena Tognini-Bonelli (eds.), pp. 75–94 | Article
1991 The description of utterances in conversation Pragmatics at Issue: Selected papers of the International Pragmatics Conference, Antwerp, August 17–22, 1987, Verschueren, Jef (ed.), pp. 229–247 | Article