Perspectives on teaching and learning English Literacy in China / Jiening Ruan, Cynthia B. Leung, editors.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Tourism and Cultural Heritage Internalization: Myths and Realities from Software / Francisco V. Cipolla Ficarra -- Emotion and Communicability in e-Culture Applications / Susana I. Herrera, Silvia del V. Zua -- The Expansion Era of the Communicability: First Nations for the Local and Global Promotion of Cultural and Natural Heritage / Francisco V. Cipolla Ficarra -- Conceptual Integration of Usability and Communicability for the Interface Maintenance of E-learning Type Collaborative Systems / Leda B. Digi, Mabel Sosa -- Trichotomic Analysis: Communicability, Distance Learning and Hypermedia Systems Off-Line / Francisco V. Cipolla Ficarra -- A Feature-Oriented WSDL Extension for Describing Grid Services / Natalia Trejo, Sandra Casas, Karim Hallar -- Digital Photography and Geographical Information in the Web 2.0: A Quality Evaluation of the Contents / Francisco V. Cipolla Ficarra -- Playing Nature - A Short History of Our Mediated Relationship to Nature / Andreas Kratky -- Virtual Reconstruction of the Wall and Alcazar of Molina de Segura / Gonzalo Mart Schez -- eGovernment: Real Democracy in Digital Society / Beatriz Sainz de Abajo, Lucas D. P. Mendes -- Reviews on the Narrative Status of Video Games / Mauricio Pez Jim{u296E}ez -- The State of OpenStreetMap in Bangladesh / Sohaila Binte Ridwan, Hasan Shahid Ferdous -- Building Virtual Guides for Virtual Worlds / Luciana Benotti, Alexandre Denis -- User Centered Development of Automatic E-mail Answering for the Public Sector / T. Cerratto-Pargman, O. Knutsson.

Social Ideologies and the English Curriculum in China: A Historical Overview / Ran Hu, Bob Adamson -- English Language Teaching in Higher Education in China: A Historical and Social Overview / An Cheng, Qiuying Wang -- English Curriculum and Assessment for Basic Education in China / Yongqi Gu -- Early Childhood English Education in China / Zhenyou Yu, Jiening Ruan -- Chinese Primary School English Curriculum Reform / Dongbo Zhang -- Twenty-First Century Senior High School English Curriculum Reform in China / Qiang Wang, Zehang Chen -- English Curriculum in Higher Education in China for Non-English Majors / Meihua Li -- After School English Language Learning in China / Ping Liu -- English Teaching and Learning in Ethnic Minority Regions in China: Challenges and Opportunities / Anwei Feng -- Use of Technology to Support the Learning and Teaching of English in China / Guofang Li, Xiaopeng Ni.

This comprehensive book surveys English literacy instruction in China from the first English school in the 19th century to recent moves to modernize English instruction. Covers early childhood education, teaching English to Chinese minority students and more.