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Publication details [#41159]

Lai, Mee-Ling. 1999. Jet and Net: A Comparison of Native-speaking English Teachers Schemes in Japan and Hong Kong. Language, Culture and Curriculum 12 (3) : 215–228.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

education | foreign language teaching | native speaker | political discussion | teacher

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

Annotation

This paper argues that the implementation of a native-speaking English teachers scheme in Japan and Hong Kong, in order to ameliorate the English standard of their secondary school students, is more driven by sociopolitical than by educational motives.