English language education across Greater China
Journal Article
Stanley, P. (2011)
English language education across Greater China. Language, Culture and Curriculum, 24(3), 303-306. https://doi.org/10.1080/07908318.2011.621326
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Superheroes in Shanghai: constructing transnational Western men's identities
Journal Article
Stanley, P. (2012)
Superheroes in Shanghai: constructing transnational Western men's identities. Gender, Place and Culture, 19(2), 213-231. https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369x.2011.573141
This article examines the ‘superhero’ phenomenon, in which Western masculinity is constructed differently in East Asia than in Western countries. This produces an imagined, Oc...
‘The foreign teacher is an idiot’: Symbolic interactionism, and assumptions about language and language teaching in China.
Journal Article
Stanley, P. (2008)
‘The foreign teacher is an idiot’: Symbolic interactionism, and assumptions about language and language teaching in China. Linguistics and the Human Sciences, 4(1), 67-89. https://doi.org/10.1558/lhs.v4i1.67
This paper examines Western teachers’ and Chinese students’ assumptions about second language acquisition and the nature of language itself. It explores the interaction of out...