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Writing in the Devil's Tongue: A History of English Composition in China
Xiaoye You
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Description for Writing in the Devil's Tongue: A History of English Composition in China
Paperback. Explores the historical, cultural, and political effects of teaching English composition in China. This book offers scholars a chance to observe how a nation changed from monolingual writing practices to bilingual writing instruction in a school setting. It alerts American writing scholars and teachers to an untimely English monolingual mentality. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JNU; YQC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
Until recently, American composition scholars have studied writing instruction mainly within the borders of their own nation, rarely considering English composition in the global context in which writing in English is increasingly taught. Writing in the Devil’s Tongue challenges this anachronistic approach by examining the history of English composition instruction in an East Asian country. Author Xiaoye You offers scholars a chance to observe how a nation changed from monolingual writing practices to bilingual writing instruction in a school setting. You makes extensive use of archival sources to help trace bilingual writing instruction in China back to 1862, when ... Read more
Until recently, American composition scholars have studied writing instruction mainly within the borders of their own nation, rarely considering English composition in the global context in which writing in English is increasingly taught. Writing in the Devil’s Tongue challenges this anachronistic approach by examining the history of English composition instruction in an East Asian country. Author Xiaoye You offers scholars a chance to observe how a nation changed from monolingual writing practices to bilingual writing instruction in a school setting. You makes extensive use of archival sources to help trace bilingual writing instruction in China back to 1862, when ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Carbondale, United States
ISBN
9780809329304
SKU
V9780809329304
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15
About Xiaoye You
Xiaoye You, an assistant professor of English at Penn State University, is a coeditor of The Politics of Second Language Writing: In Search of the Promised Land. He has published articles in CCC, Rhetoric Review, Rhetoric Society Quarterly, World Englishes, and Journal of Second Language Writing.
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