Doing English in Asia

Global Literature and Culture

Patricia Haseltine, Sheng-mei Ma

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Year: 2016
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9780739192016
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

Doing English in Asia: Global Literature and Culture examines the effect of globalization on the curriculum of Asian universities. As knowledge of the English language has increasingly been understood as necessary to excel in international business, a number of Asian universities have replaced the traditional study of English literature and culture with applied English or English for specified purposes. This edited collection tackles the question of how to teach English language and culture through literature in case studies from practitioners all across Asia. Contributors thus balance the need for students to understand the interface between English cultures and their own with the pressure to prepare them for employment in this changing environment.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Preface
• Introduction
• Part I: Language Politics across Asia
• Chapter 1: “Exophony” in the Midst of the Mother Tongue
• Chapter 2: Unfinished English
• Chapter 3: Using Chopsticks to Read Knife ‘n’ Fork English
• Part II: Culture and Language Study in Taiwan
• Chapter 4: Teaching Early British Literature in Southern Taiwan
• Chapter 5: Teaching English Language and Literature in the Asia-Pacific Region
• Chapter 6: Interacting with “Other” Places in Modern Poetry through Hypermedia
• Part III: Drama and Ethos beyond Borders
• Chapter 7: Shakespeare’s Cymbeline in the College English Classroom during the Sunflower Student Movement
• Chapter 8: MOOC “Global/Local Shakespeare”
• Chapter 9: Modern Renaissance Education in Taiwan’s Departments of Foreign Languages
• About the Editors and Contributors