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Mainland Chinese students' English use in Macao

Does attendance at an English-medium university provide students with more opportunities to practise their spoken English?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 May 2013

Kun Zhang
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Macao, a former colony of Portugal, is located in the western side of the Pearl River estuary, adjoining the Zhuhai Special Economic Zone and facing the South China Sea. It is much smaller than its ‘big brother’ Hong Kong, having a total land area of 29.5 sq km and a population of around 540,000, of which 94.3% are ethnic Chinese (DSEC, 2011).

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English Today , Volume 29 , Issue 2 , June 2013 , pp. 54 - 59
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2013 

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