The lingua franca role of English, coupled with its status as the official language of ASEAN,
has important implications for language policy and language education. These include the …

This chapter discusses the statistics of English across Asia, with reference to both the
numbers of English users in the region, and the measurement of levels of English …

Language and National Identity in Asia is a comprehensive introduction to the role of
language in the construction and development of nations and national identities in Asia …

This article examines a group of Vietnamese ethnic minority students' language attitudes in
relation to their identity and minority language (L1) maintenance by focusing on three …

This paper examines and decomposes the gap in per capita expenditures between majority
and minority ethnic groups in rural Vietnam between 1993 and 2004. Over this period, the …

This paper re-examines the sources of inequality in Vietnam, a transitional economy with
large reductions in poverty from recent and dramatic economic growth, but vastly unequal …

This book unpacks data from conversations with bi-/multilingual EFL teachers whose L1s
are languages other than English and who are from understudied contexts–Argentina …

Disconnection and avoidance have been theorized various ways, eg, by analyzing
communicative and non-communicative affordances of devices and platforms; categorizing …

Communicating with Asia brings together an international team of leading researchers to
discuss South, South-East, East and Central Asia, and explore Mandarin, Cantonese, Hindi …

This book asks whether language makes a difference when it comes to development, and
whether there is a perceptible difference in development between countries that is …