China English in World Englishes by Deyuan He

Author:Deyuan He
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9789811581878
Publisher: Springer Singapore

China English has not been well-codified and promoted;

Standardized English ensures better communication;

China does not have the social foundation to adopt her own variety of English as the teaching model like India or Singapore;

The teachers and students have got used to Standardized English as the teaching model; and

Pedagogic model should be a target that can be fulfilled only through arduous work, or it would be meaningless.

However, most of the interviewees who chose Standardized English also admitted that students’ near-Standardized-English or even China English is acceptable provided they can communicate in English with others in view of the enormous difficulties in achieving the level of true Standardized English. The following excerpts illustrate the above opinions:[Example 30] I choose Standardized English because if we choose China English as our teaching model, our English might go too far from Standardized English and become unintelligible to the speakers of other varieties of English. You know, we cannot attain Standardized English but something like China English even when we choose the former as the pedagogic model, then what will our English be like if we choose China English as our model? (SM23E1)

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