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"Buenos dias", "buenas noches" -- this was the first words in a foreign language I heard in my life, as a three-year old boy growing up in developing post-war Western Germany, where the first gastarbeiters had arrived from Spain. Fascinated by the strange sounds, I tried to get to know some more languages, the only opportunity being TV courses of English and French -- there was no foreign language education for pre-teen school children in Germany yet in those days. Read more

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Name:	Kun  Zhang
Institution:	University of Hong Kong
Email:	click here to access email
Homepage:	http://caes.hku.hk/home/staff/kunzhang
State and/or Country:	China
Linguistic Field(s):	Sociolinguistics
Specialty:	Bilingualism, language and identity
Subject Language(s):	Chinese, Mandarin English
Selected Publications:	Language Attitudes in Hong Kong and Macao: A Review of Recent Research (co-authored with Dr. Matthew SUNG; 50/50 contribution) To appear in Macao Language and Culture Research. Macao: Macao Polytechnic Institute
Courses Taught:	Bilingualism (Teaching Assistant,ENGL484) Introduction to Language Study (Teaching Assistant,ENGL128/129) Applied Linguistics I – Language Acquisition (Teaching Assistant,ENGL287)
Reviewer of:	English - A Changing Medium for Education (LL Issue 24.625)
Academic Paper Abstract:	Mainland Chinese students' English use in Macao
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