By Theron Muller
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Small-scale ethnographic projects provide one possible approach to such tasks. The next five areas all relate to exploring other cultures and global contexts. As suggested above, these include cultural artifacts such as externally produced language textbooks and other teaching materials, English language media (including the internet) and the arts, all of which can be used to examine different images and perspectives of other cultures at both local and global levels. However, it is necessary to take a critical stance towards such materials and texts and consider to what extent the images of other cultures presented may be stereotyped or fragmented (see for example, Kramsch, 1993).
In many cases, even when scholars are from Asia, they tend to be based in Western countries and report their affiliations as such. Finally, summaries of the region tend to take as their starting point nation-states as units of analysis and comparison, ignoring the considerable diversity within countries, a shortcoming Hofstede (1991) acknowledges. Thus when we approached presenting English language teaching in the Asian context for this book, we resolved to avoid making broad brush strokes about the region and have tried to ensure teacher-researchers living in Asia paint pictures of their context and experience, leaving it to the reader to draw comparisons and contrasts with their own circumstances and potential similarities across borders.
On the other hand, many principles of the framework are still specific to the Chinese context – for example, the inclusion of “love the homeland,” as patriotism in education reflects the doctrine of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) that education should serve proletarian politics and modern socialist development (Fang, 2009). Teaching approaches The NEC advocates CLT, particularly with task-based language teaching (TBLT). g. g. g. g. learn English with TV) Teaching the New English Curriculum 11 facilitate students to do things in English” (CMOEC, 2003: 26).