Overview
- Analyses the impetus for educational changes in China
- Draws on first-hand experience for a comprehensive insight into innovation in language education in China
- Offers insight into changes in language learning that can be implemented elsewhere
Part of the book series: New Language Learning and Teaching Environments (NLLTE)
Access this book
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Other ways to access
Table of contents (14 chapters)
Keywords
About this book
Reviews
“This book’s up-to-date, consolidated, and comprehensive exposition of empirical studies in pedagogy and its suggestions on EFL educational innovation in China will certainly appeal to researchers, practitioners, and policymakers.” (Yuehai Xiao, Yunzhuo Ma and Wenting Chan, Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, Vol. 44 (1), 2021)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
David Nunan is Chair of the Research Committee, Director of the MA TESOL Program and Director of the David Nunan Institute for Language Education at Anaheim University, USA. He is also Professor Emeritus at the University of Hong Kong, China. He has published over 100 books and articles in the areas of curriculum and materials development, classroom-based research and discourse analysis.
Bin Zou is Senior Tutor / Associate Professor at the Language Centre, Xi’an Jioatong Liverpool University, China. His research interests include English Language Teaching, Computer Assisted Language Learning and English for Academic Purposes. He is an executive committee member of the China English for Academic Purposes Association and an executive committee member of the China Computer-Assisted Language Learning Association.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching
Book Subtitle: The Case of China
Editors: Hayo Reinders, David Nunan, Bin Zou
Series Title: New Language Learning and Teaching Environments
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-60092-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-60091-2Published: 25 September 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-60092-9Published: 08 September 2017
Series ISSN: 2946-2932
Series E-ISSN: 2946-2940
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 332
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Applied Linguistics, Language Education, Language Teaching, Chinese