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Multilingual China

Author : Bob Adamson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000487024
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Multilingual China written by Bob Adamson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-28 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Multilingual China explores the dynamics of multilingualism in one of the most multilingual countries in the world. This edited collection comprises frontline empirical research into a range of important issues that arise from the presence of 55 official ethnic minority groups, plus China’s search to modernize and strengthen the nation’s place in the world order. Topics focus on the dynamics of national, ethnic minority and foreign languages in use, policy making and education, inside China and beyond. Micro-studies of language contact and variation are included, as are chapters dealing with multilingual media and linguistic landscapes. The book highlights tensions such as threats to the sustainability of weak languages and dialects, the role and status of foreign languages (especially English) and how Chinese can be presented as a viable regional or international language. Multilingual China will appeal to academics and researchers working in multilingualism and multilingual education, as well as sinologists keen to examine the interplay of languages in this complex multilingual context.

Language Attitudes and Identities in Multilingual China

Author : Sihua Liang
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319126199
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (191 download)

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Book Synopsis Language Attitudes and Identities in Multilingual China by : Sihua Liang

Download or read book Language Attitudes and Identities in Multilingual China written by Sihua Liang and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-12-04 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These in-depth case studies provide novel insights in to the fast-changing language situation in multilingual China, and how it changes the meanings of language identity and language learning. This linguistic ethnographic study of language attitudes and identities in contemporary China in the era of multilingualism provides a comprehensive and critical review of the state of the art in the field of language-attitude research, and situates attitudes towards Chinese regional dialects in their social, historical as well as local contexts. The role of language policies and the links between the interactional phenomena and other contextual factors are investigated through the multi-level analysis of linguistic ethnographic data. This study captures the long-term language socialisation process and the moment-to-moment construction of language attitudes at a level of detail that is rarely seen. The narrative is presented in a highly readable style, without compromising the theoretical sophistication and sociolinguistic complexities.

Bilingual Education and Minority Language Maintenance in China

Author : Lubei Zhang
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030034542
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Bilingual Education and Minority Language Maintenance in China written by Lubei Zhang and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-01-10 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks closely at Yi bilingual education practice in the southwest of China from an educationalist’s perspective and, in doing so, provides an insight toward our understanding of minority language maintenance and bilingual education implementation in China. The book provides an overview on the Yi people since 1949, their history, society, culture, customs and languages. Adopting the theory of language ecology, data was collected among different Yi groups and case studies were focused on Yi bilingual schools. By looking into the application of the Chinese government’s multilingual language and education policy over the last 30 years with its underlying language ideology and practices the book reveals the de facto language policy by analyzing the language management at school level, the linguistic landscape around the Yi community, as well as the language attitude and cultural identities held by present Yi students, teachers and parents. The book is relevant for anyone looking to more deeply understand bilingual education and language maintenance in today’s global context.

Trilingualism in Education in China: Models and Challenges

Author : Anwei Feng
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9401793522
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (17 download)

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Book Synopsis Trilingualism in Education in China: Models and Challenges by : Anwei Feng

Download or read book Trilingualism in Education in China: Models and Challenges written by Anwei Feng and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-09-26 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines language policies and practices in schools in regions of China populated by indigenous minority groups. It focuses on models of trilingual education, i.e. education in the home language, Putonghua (Mandarin Chinese, the national language), and English (the main foreign language). Special attention is given to the study of the vitality of the minority home language in each region and issues relating to and the effects of the teaching and learning of the minority home language on minority students’ acquisition of Mandarin Chinese and English and on their school performance in general. The book also examines the case of Cantonese in Guangdong, where the local Chinese ‘dialect’ is strong but distant from the mainstream language, Putonghua. It takes a new approach to researching sociolinguistic phenomena, and presents a new methodology that emerged from studies of bi/trilingualism in European societies and was then tailored to the trilingual context in China. The methodology encompasses policy analysis and community language profiles, as well as school-based fieldwork, and provides rich data that facilitate multilevel analysis of policy-in-context.

Language Power and Hierarchy

Author : Linda Tsung
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441172394
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Language Power and Hierarchy written by Linda Tsung and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-27 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shunning polemicism and fashioning a new agenda for a critically informed yet practically orientated approach, this book explores aspects of multilingual education in the People's Republic of China (PRC). Amongst other issues, it also looks at the challenges associated with bilingual and trilingual education in Xinjiang and Tibet as well as the mediation between religion and culture in multi-ethnic schools, covering these issues from a range of perspectives - Korean, Uyghur, Tibetan, Mongolian and Yi. The PRC promotes itself as a harmonious, stable multicultural mosaic, with over 50 distinct ethnic groups striving for common prosperity. Beneath this rhetoric, there is also inter-ethnic discord, with scenes of ethnic violence in Lhasa and Urumqi over the last few years. China has a complex system of multilingual education - with dual-pathway curricula, bilingual and trilingual instruction, specialised ethnic schools. This education system is a lynchpin in the Communist party state's efforts to keep a lid on simmering tensions and transform a rhetoric of harmony into a critical pluralistic harmonious multiculturalism. This book examines this supposed lynchpin.

Bilingual Education in China

Author : Anwei Feng
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
ISBN 13 : 1853599913
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (535 download)

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Download or read book Bilingual Education in China written by Anwei Feng and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2007 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings a mixed group of researchers together to discuss issues in bilingual or trilingual education for the majority and minority nationality groups in China and to explore the relationship between the two.

Language Power and Hierarchy

Author : Linda Tsung
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441155740
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Language Power and Hierarchy written by Linda Tsung and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-27 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shunning polemicism and fashioning a new agenda for a critically informed yet practically orientated approach, this book explores aspects of multilingual education in the People's Republic of China (PRC). Amongst other issues, it also looks at the challenges associated with bilingual and trilingual education in Xinjiang and Tibet as well as the mediation between religion and culture in multi-ethnic schools, covering these issues from a range of perspectives - Korean, Uyghur, Tibetan, Mongolian and Yi. The PRC promotes itself as a harmonious, stable multicultural mosaic, with over 50 distinct ethnic groups striving for common prosperity. Beneath this rhetoric, there is also inter-ethnic discord, with scenes of ethnic violence in Lhasa and Urumqi over the last few years. China has a complex system of multilingual education - with dual-pathway curricula, bilingual and trilingual instruction, specialised ethnic schools. This education system is a lynchpin in the Communist party state's efforts to keep a lid on simmering tensions and transform a rhetoric of harmony into a critical pluralistic harmonious multiculturalism. This book examines this supposed lynchpin.

Learning Chinese in a Multilingual Space

Author : Peiru Tong
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031003071
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Learning Chinese in a Multilingual Space written by Peiru Tong and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-05-25 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the benefits of an Australian in-country study (ICS) in China programme and explores ways to maximise the short-term ICS experience in a multilingual space. The book employs an ecological perspective which has seldom been used to examine the study abroad context. It emphasises the importance of the space itself as an arena of interaction, belonging and power, where conduct and modes of communication are often regulated by political authorities and societal expectations. Specifically, the book focuses on the following: • the extent to which the ICS facilitated interaction in different settings • the way in which interaction during ICS contributed to language learning • the degree in which the interaction during ICS contributed to culture learning and • the role of identity in the learning process in the ICS. The main argument of the book is that while the ICS promoted multilingual learning space for in-class and out-of-class interactions, which further facilitated language and culture learning to a great extent, Australian students’ identities and self-concepts also played a core mediating role throughout individual learning trajectories.

Multilingualism in the Chinese Diaspora Worldwide

Author : Li Wei
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317638980
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book Multilingualism in the Chinese Diaspora Worldwide written by Li Wei and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-16 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, Li Wei brings together contributions from well-known and emerging scholars in socio- and anthropological linguistics working on different linguistic and communicative aspects of the Chinese diaspora. The project examines the Chinese diasporic experience from a global, comparative perspective, with a particular focus on transnational links, and local social and multilingual realities. Contributors address the emergence of new forms of Chinese in multilingual contexts, family language policy and practice, language socialization and identity development, multilingual creativity, linguistic attitudes and ideologies, and heritage language maintenance, loss, learning and re-learning. The studies are based on empirical observations and investigations in Chinese communities across the globe, including well-researched (from a sociolinguistic perspective) areas such as North America, Western Europe and Australia, as well as under-explored and under-represented areas such as Africa, Latin America, Central Asia, and the Middle East; the volume also includes detailed ethnographic accounts representing regions with a high concentration of Chinese migration such as Southeast Asia. This volume not only will allow sociolinguists to investigate the link between linguistic phenomena in specific communities and wider socio-cultural processes, but also invites an open dialogue with researchers from other disciplines who are working on migration, diaspora and identity, and those studying other language-based diasporic communities such as the Russian diaspora, the Spanish diaspora, the Portuguese diaspora, and the Arabic diaspora.

Language Planning in China

Author : Li Yuming
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1614513929
Total Pages : 503 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (145 download)

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Download or read book Language Planning in China written by Li Yuming and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-08-31 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by a leading scholar who has been closely involved in language planning in China over many decades, this collection of essays is a critical reflection of the work the Chinese government and academics have undertaken in establishing appropriate policies regarding language standard, language use and language education. The essays contain unique insights into the thinking behind much of the language planning work in China today.

The Language Situation in China

Author : Li Yuming
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501511416
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book The Language Situation in China written by Li Yuming and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-07-22 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China, with the world's largest population, numerous ethnic groups and vast geographical space, is also rich in languages. Since 2006, China's State Language Commission has been publishing annual reports on what is called "language life" in China. These reports cover language policy and planning invitatives at the national, provincial and local levels, new trends in language use in a variety of social domains, and major events concerning languages in mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan. Now for the first time, these reports are available in English for anyone interested in Chinese languge and linguistics, China's languge, education and social policies, as well as everyday language use among the ordinary people in China. The invaluable data contained in these reports provide an essential reference to researchers, professionals, policy makers, and China watchers.

Soft Power and the Worldwide Promotion of Chinese Language Learning

Author : Jeffrey Gil
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
ISBN 13 : 1783098074
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)

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Book Synopsis Soft Power and the Worldwide Promotion of Chinese Language Learning by : Jeffrey Gil

Download or read book Soft Power and the Worldwide Promotion of Chinese Language Learning written by Jeffrey Gil and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2017-05-11 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘The Confucius Institute Project’ – consisting of Confucius Institutes and Classrooms, the posting of Chinese language teachers to overseas schools and universities and the Chinese Bridge language competition – represents an attempt by China to extend its influence globally through the use of soft power. Facilitated by a rapidly increasing demand for Chinese language learning, it has established a presence across the globe and made valuable contributions to the learning and teaching of Chinese. However, this has not necessarily led to an increasingly positive view of China, either at a political or a societal level. Through an analysis of official documents, interviews with those involved, a survey of Chinese-language learners and a study of academic and media sources, the author evaluates the aims of the project, and discusses whether these aims are being met.

The Language Situation in China

Author : Li Yuming
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501511726
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book The Language Situation in China written by Li Yuming and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-09-23 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China, with the world's largest population, numerous ethnic groups and vast geographical space, is also rich in languages. Since 2006, China's State Language Commission has been publishing annual reports on what is called "language life" in China. These reports cover language policy and planning invitatives at the national, provincial and local levels, new trends in language use in a variety of social domains, and major events concerning languages in mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan. Now for the first time, these reports are available in English for anyone interested in Chinese languge and linguistics, China's languge, education and social policies, as well as everyday language use among the ordinary people in China. The invaluable data contained in these reports provide an essential reference to researchers, professionals, policy makers, and China watchers.

Language Education in China : Policy and Experience from 1949

Author : Agnes S.L. Lam
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
ISBN 13 : 9622097502
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (22 download)

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Book Synopsis Language Education in China : Policy and Experience from 1949 by : Agnes S.L. Lam

Download or read book Language Education in China : Policy and Experience from 1949 written by Agnes S.L. Lam and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2005-10-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Language Education in China: Policy and Experience from 1949 is unprecedented as a comprehensive study of the multilingual circumstances in China. It tracks policy changes in the learning of Chinese, foreign languages and minority ethnic languages in China since the establishment of the People’s Republic of China in 1949. On the basis of survey and interview data, the experiences of different age cohorts of learners are presented as "windows" to the realities of language education policy implementation over the last half century. The effects of political changes, language backgrounds and various motivations for learning, at both the national and individual levels, are vividly presented in this composite story of China and learners in China.

Language Standardization and Language Variation in Multilingual Contexts

Author : Nicola McLelland
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
ISBN 13 : 180041157X
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (4 download)

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Book Synopsis Language Standardization and Language Variation in Multilingual Contexts by : Nicola McLelland

Download or read book Language Standardization and Language Variation in Multilingual Contexts written by Nicola McLelland and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2021-11-24 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important contribution to the sociolinguistics of Asian languages breaks new ground in the study of language standards and standardization in two key ways: in its focus on Asia, with particular attention paid to China and its neighbours, and in the attention paid to multilingual contexts. The chapters address various kinds of (sometimes hidden) multilingualism and examine the interactions between multilingualism and language standardization, offering a corrective to earlier work on standardization, which has tended to assume a monolingual nation state and monolingual individuals. Taken together, the chapters in this book thus add to our understanding of the ways in which multilingualism is implicated in language standardization, as well as the impact of language standards on multilingualism. The introduction, Chapter 6 and Chapter 8 are free to download as open access publications. You can access them here: Introduction: https://zenodo.org/record/5749388#.YaiwuNDP3cs Chapter 6: https://zenodo.org/record/5749522#.Yaiw-9DP3cs Chapter 8: https://zenodo.org/record/5749586#.Yai0RNDP3cs

English Language Education Across Greater China

Author : Anwei Feng
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
ISBN 13 : 1847693490
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (476 download)

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Download or read book English Language Education Across Greater China written by Anwei Feng and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2011 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a comprehensive examination of the spread of English and English education across Greater China through sociolinguistic studies of Mainland China, Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau, and in-depth analysis of English language use and education in economically booming areas of Mainland China such as Shanghai and Guangdong and underdeveloped regions like Xinjiang.

The Language Situation in China

Author : Li Yuming
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501511599
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (15 download)

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