Hu Xiaoqiong

Biographic Data

ID9282431
NAMEHu Xiaoqiong
GIVEN NAMESHu
FAMILY NAMEXiaoqiong
SIGNATUREXIAOQIONG H
AFFILIATIONSa College of Foreign Languages , Three Gorges University , China
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT7
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2005
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2017
H-INDEX0

  • Laoshi, zao shang hao ! Good morning, teacher

    Open AccessHu Xiaoqiong, Xiaoqiong Hu et al.ARTICLEEnglish Today2017

    Terms of address are universally seen as a tool used to build social relations between speakers and hearers. Terms of address ‘help establish or maintain social bonds, strengthen solidarity and control social distance’ (Gu, 1990: 249), although ways of addressing vary from culture to culture. Therefore, the proper choice of address terms is a prerequisite for a successful interaction. Inappropriate use of address terms may lead to misunderstandin…

  • Using Film to Teach EFL Students English Language Skills

    Hu Xiaoqiong, Xiaoqiong Hu et al.ARTICLEChanging English2008

    Language teachers readily acknowledge the importance of learners' motivation, not infrequently explaining their own sense of failure with reference to their students' lack of motivation. Second Lan

  • The Culture Shock that Asian Students Experience in Immersion Education

    Hu Xiaoqiong, Xiaoqiong HuARTICLEChanging English2008

    Economic globalisation has given rise to global English and English, as a lingua franca, is spreading at an ever‐increasing rate. This world language has become the focus of many people's attention

  • Bilingual Instruction in Chinese Universities

    Wan Cui, Wan Shou Cui et al.ARTICLEChanging English2007

    Given the very unified and predominantly monolingual character of Chinese culture, bilingual instruction in China did not exist until very recently. Now, due to the much closer links with the West and following a recent directive from the Chinese Government, it is becoming a reality. The successful introduction of bilingual instruction by Zhejian University shows that it can be done, despite the failure or only partial success of so many other un…

  • Towards the acceptability of China English at home and abroad

    Meilin Chen, Chen Meilin et al.ARTICLEChanging English2006

    As English language learning becomes a hot issue in China, linguists in China and abroad are becoming increasingly interested in China English—a relatively new concept. Whether China English has acquired the status of a new English variety is still an open question. This paper reviews the acceptability of China English at home and abroad and finds that China English is still not a fully accepted form of English. However, this newly‐born English v…

  • Towards the acceptability of China English at home and abroad

    Open AccessMeilin Chen, Chen Meilin et al.ARTICLEEnglish Today2006

    Is a vast new variety of the language emerging? As the learning of English becomes a hot issue in China, linguists there and elsewhere have become interested in ‘China English’ – a relatively new concept. However, whether English as used in China has yet acquired the status of a distinct new variety of the language remains an open question. This paper reviews the acceptability of such an English, both at home and abroad, which has the potential (…

  • China English, at home and in the world

    Open AccessHu Xiaoqiong, Xiaoqiong HuARTICLEEnglish Today2005

    First describing the rapid growth of English as a lingua franca in Europe and East Asia, and having drawn attention to similarities and differences in the evolution of the varieties of English worldwide, the author focuses on China where, as in so many other domains, growth and change are currently very rapid. She reports in particular on an investigation into 586 Chinese English teachers' attitudes to both the standard varieties of the language …