caa a22 4500 463241177 CHVBK 20180405153313.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170326e20071101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10993-007-9052-9 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10993-007-9052-9 Hu Yuanyuan Department of English, Purdue University, 500 Oval Drive, 47907-1356, West Lafayette, IN, USA aut China's foreign language policy on primary English education: What's behind it? [Elektronische Daten] [Yuanyuan Hu] This paper examines the formulation of China's foreign language policy on primary English education issued in 2001, specifically exploring factors contributing to the formulation of the policy and problems in its formulation. Drawing upon official documents, newspaper archives, publications, and an interview with an education official, it identifies five contributing factors and six problems in relation to policy formulation. The paper argues that the policy, jointly shaped by social, economic, educational, linguistic, and political forces, was the outcome of top-down, assumption-based, and hasty policymaking. The Chinese case exemplifies the impact of the global spread of English on foreign language policy in non-English speaking countries. Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2007 China nationallicence Contributing factors nationallicence Foreign language policy nationallicence Primary English education nationallicence Problems in policy formulation nationallicence ELT : English language teaching nationallicence Language Policy Springer Netherlands 6/3-4(2007-11-01), 359-376 1568-4555 6:3-4<359 2007 6 10993 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10993-007-9052-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10993-007-9052-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Hu Yuanyuan Department of English, Purdue University, 500 Oval Drive, 47907-1356, West Lafayette, IN, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Language Policy Springer Netherlands 6/3-4(2007-11-01), 359-376 1568-4555 6:3-4<359 2007 6 10993 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer