Bilingual Education And Minority Language Maintenance In China

Author : Lubei Zhang,Linda Tsung
Publisher : Springer
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030034542

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Bilingual Education and Minority Language Maintenance in China by Lubei Zhang,Linda Tsung Pdf

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.

Author : Willem Fase,Koen Jaspaert,Sjaak Kroon
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027241016

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Maintenance and Loss of Minority Languages by Willem Fase,Koen Jaspaert,Sjaak Kroon Pdf

The papers in this volume describe a wide variety of language contact settings in which one or more languages are in a process of shift. In the first part of the book theoretical perspectives are presented, followed by linguistic, sociological and descriptive studies of languages and countries that have attracted the interest of researchers before, as well as less well known examples. Data are presented from: the Philippines, Korea, Japan, Israel, The Netherlands, Belgium, Canada, Sweden, Spain, Denmark, Morocco, Finland, Malaysia, Germany, USA, Ireland, India, Tanzania and Australia.

Author : L. Tsung
Publisher : Springer
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230234406

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Minority Languages, Education and Communities in China by L. Tsung Pdf

The book outlines the evolution and role of minority languages locally and nationally; it investigates current educational language policies in minority areas; and it assesses the social and economic outcomes of language change for communities in contemporary China.

Author : Qingsheng Zhou
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781501511516

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Ethnic Minority Languages in China by Qingsheng Zhou Pdf

This book describes and analyzes the situation of minority languages in China.

Author : Anwei Feng
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781853599910

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Bilingual Education in China by Anwei Feng Pdf

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.

Author : Gulbahar H. Beckett,Gerard A. Postiglione
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781136638077

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China's Assimilationist Language Policy by Gulbahar H. Beckett,Gerard A. Postiglione Pdf

China has huge ethnic minorities – over 40 different groups with a total population of over 100 million. Over time China’s policies towards minority languages have varied, changing from policies which have accommodated minority languages to policies which have encouraged integration. At present integrationist policies predominate, notably in the education system, where instruction in minority languages is being edged out in favour of instruction in Mandarin Chinese. This book assesses the current state of indigenous and minority language policy in China. It considers especially language policy in the education system, including in higher education, and provides detailed case studies of how particular ethnic minorities are being affected by the integrationist, or assimilationist, approach.

Author : Bob Adamson,Anwei Feng
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000487022

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Multilingual China by Bob Adamson,Anwei Feng Pdf

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.

Author : Donghui Zhang
Publisher : LFB Scholarly Publishing
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Americanization
ISBN : UCSD:31822037247749

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Between Two Generations by Donghui Zhang Pdf

Author : James Leibold,Yangbin Chen
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789888208135

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Minority Education in China by James Leibold,Yangbin Chen Pdf

China has been ethnically, linguistically, and religiously diverse. This volume recasts the pedagogical and policy challenges of minority education in China in the light of the state's efforts to balance unity and diversity. It brings together leading experts including both critical voices writing from outside China and those working inside China's educational system. The essays explore different aspects of ethnic minority education in China: the challenges associated with bilingual and trilingual education in Xinjiang and Tibet; Han Chinese reactions to preferential minority education; the ro.

Author : Andrea C. Schalley,Susana A. Eisenchlas
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781501510076

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Handbook of Home Language Maintenance and Development by Andrea C. Schalley,Susana A. Eisenchlas Pdf

Even a cursory look at conference programs and proceedings reveals a burgeoning interest in the field of social and affective factors in home language maintenance and development. To date, however, research on this topic has been published in piecemeal fashion, subsumed under the more general umbrella of ‘bilingualism’. Within bilingualism research, there has been an extensive exploration of linguistic and psycholinguistic perspectives on the one hand, and educational practices and outcomes on the other. In comparison, social and affective factors – which lead people to either maintain or shift the language – have been under-researched. This is the first volume that brings together the different strands in research on social and affective factors in home language maintenance and development, ranging from the micro-level (family language policies and practices), to the meso-level (community initiatives) and the macro-level (mainstream educational policies and their implementation). The volume showcases a wide distribution across contexts and populations explored. Contributors from around the world represent different research paradigms and perspectives, providing a rounded overview of the state-of-the-art in this flourishing field.

Author : Jim Cummins,David Corson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Education
ISBN : 0792348060

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Bilingual Education by Jim Cummins,David Corson Pdf

This volume provides a comprehensive account of the implementation of bilingual education programmes in countries throughout the world. Bilingual programmes have been implemented to achieve a variety of educational and social goals in different contexts. Some programmes are intended to support the maintenance of national minority languages or to revitalize languages whose long-term survival is threatened; others aim to help recent immigrants succeed academically while making the transition to instruction taught primarily through the majority language of the society. In addition, bilingual programmes have been used to teach additional languages to students from the majority or dominant language group. Similar theoretical principles underlie the development of bilingual conversational and academic skills in all these diverse contexts.

Author : Anwei Feng,Bob Adamson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789401793520

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Trilingualism in Education in China: Models and Challenges by Anwei Feng,Bob Adamson Pdf

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.

Author : YiXi LaMuCuo
Publisher : Springer
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030146689

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Becoming Bilingual in School and Home in Tibetan Areas of China: Stories of Struggle by YiXi LaMuCuo Pdf

This book contributes significantly to our understanding of bilingualism and bilingual education as a sociocultural and political process by offering analyses of the stories of five Tibetan individual journeys of becoming bilingual in the Tibetan areas of China at four different points in time from 1950 to the present. The data presented comprises the narrative of their bilingual encounters, including their experiences of using language in their families, in village, and in school. Opportunities to develop bilingualism were intimately linked with historical and political events in the wider layers of experiences, which reveal the complexity of bilingualism. Moreover, their experiences of developing bilingualism are the stories of struggle to become bilingual. They struggle because they want to keep two languages in their lives. It illustrates their relationship with society. They are Tibetans. L1 is not the official language of their country, but it is the tie with their ethnicity. It addresses bilingualism linked with the formation of identity. The unique feature of this book is that it offers a deep understanding of bilingualism and bilingual education by examining the stories of five individuals’ learning experiences over a period of almost 60 years.

Author : Linda Tsung
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781441155740

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Language Power and Hierarchy by Linda Tsung Pdf

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.

Author : Sandra McKay,Sau-ling Cynthia Wong
Publisher : Newbury House Publishers
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Language and education
ISBN : UCSC:32106009054997

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Language Diversity, Problem Or Resource? by Sandra McKay,Sau-ling Cynthia Wong Pdf