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China English and Chinese English

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 October 2008

Ailing Zhang
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Abstract

AILING ZHANG makes a distinction between two kinds of English in China ‘to emphasize the absolute necessity of Standard English to be taught, instead of other varieties claimed by some linguists to be equally good’.

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Angles of Vision
Information
English Today , Volume 13 , Issue 4 , October 1997 , pp. 39 - 41
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1997

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