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1、ImportantTasksofEnglishEducation:Asia-wideandBeyondAuthorDavidNunanBioData:ProfessorDavidNunanisDirectoroftheEnglishCentreandProfessorofAppliedLinguisticsattheUniversityofHongKong.HehasworkedasanESL/EFLteacher,researcher,curriculumdeveloper,andmateri
2、alswriterinmanypartsoftheworld,includingAustralia,Oman,Japan,Singapore,Thailand,andtheUK.ProfessorNunanhaspublishedbooksonlanguageteachingcurriculumdevelopment,discourseanalysis,secondlanguageteachereducation,languageteachingmethodology,andresearchme
3、thodsinappliedlinguistics.Dr.NunanisontheAdvisoryBoardoftheAsianEFLJournalWeneedtolookdeeplyattimesintothespecificneedsoflearnersinAsiaandthePacificregionwhowecannotforgetarestillverymuchlivinginlocalcontexts-notonlyanevidentlyincreasinglyglobalone.T
4、hatbeingsaid,thereismuchtolearnfromthesestudiesthatcanbeborrowedandlentacrossanumberoffrontiers.Further,itisevidentthatwemustnotexcluderesearchintosecondlanguagelearningbecauseofititsgeographicalorculturalsource.Thathastounderlayanimportantpartofthei
5、ntegrityofresearchandthisbookisverymuchdevotedtothatprinciple.Oneapproach,thatdoesseemtomeetawiderangeofcross-regionalneedsandtowhichanumberoftheauthorsdealwithdirectlyorindirectlyisonetowhichIhavecontinuouslybeendrawingattentionandanalysisformoretha
6、ntwodecades.Itisthatoftaskbasedlearning.Interestingly,itspopularityisacceleratinginEastAsiaaswellaselsewhere.AdemonstrationofthisisthefactthatIwasaskedbytheChineseGovernmenttoprepareanewtaskbasedpublicationfortheEnglishcurriculum.Chinarepresents,asLi
7、(2004)statesinhisincludedwork,theworld'slargestsourceofEnglishlearners,letalonethelargestsegmentofEFLlearnersanywhereintheworld.IndiawithitshugepopulationandapparentnewboomforEnglishlearningasmentionedbyGupta(2005)isalsoalargebeaconofEnglishlearning.
8、JustthesetwocountriesaloneandtheirappetitesforEnglisheducationgiveusanewsenseoftheincreaseddiversityoflanguageownership;somethingPhanLeHa(2005)touchesoninherarticleontheinternationalizationofthelanguageandnon-nativesincreasingcriticalroleinteaching,d
