Perspectives on Teaching English at Colleges and Universities in China

This book in the ELT in Context series, coauthored by a Chinese teacher of English in China and an American teacher of English who worked in China, is a powerful example of international collaboration and highlights one of the distinctive features of this series. In this new volume, Joel Heng Hartse describes working as a foreign teacher of English at Zhejiang University and Jiang Dong describes his work as a local teacher of English at Yuanpei College. This combination brings together two equally important and complementary areas of expertise, in which one teacher-author can be considered to be an expert in the ELT system of that country he was educated in and is the product of that system, while the other teacher-author can be considered to be an expert in the use of the target language, in this case, English.

Joel Heng Hartse is a lecturer in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University. His research areas include world Englishes, variation in second language writing, and the globalization of academic writing and publishing. His work has appeared in the Journal of Second Language Writing, Asian Englishes, and Composition Studies. Dong JiangDong Jiang is a lecturer at Yuanpei College, Shaoxing University, where he has been teaching English as a foreign language since 2007. His academic interests are translation studies and intercultural communication, and he has his works published by Liaoning Normal University Press, and in the Journal of Liaoning Normal University and Journal of Dalian University.