RIYADH-With a map of China on the wall behind him, 14-year-old Yasser Shaalan studied the names of professions in a Chinese textbook, one of thousands of Saudi children now learning the language at ...

Chinese is a difficult, but rewarding language to learn. In fact, it’s the most popular language in the world. However, most vacations and business trips don’t need that level of learning. Most use ...

Vol. 95, Supplement 1: The Supplementary Issue: Research in and Around the Language Classroom: Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches (2011), pp. 64-80 (17 pages) This article reports a comparative ...