Paper"I can’t Stand My Poor English" : English Fever and the 2008 Beijing OlympicsJie Zhang (Macquarie University) |
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| Program Summary |
| Presenter: Jie ZHANG Drawing on a critical multi-site ethnography conducted before, during and after the Beijing Olympic Games, this paper investigates: 1) English language ideologies in relation to the identity construction of Beijing as an Olympic host city, and 2) Chinese people’s underlying desire for learning and using English in the Beijing Olympic context. |