Multilingual China: National, Minority and Foreign Languages

ISBN-13: 9780367251031 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 212 str.

Bob Adamson; Kingsley Bolton; Anwei Feng

Opis

This edited collection provides a forum for frontline empirical research into issues such as the dynamics of multilingualism in China, multilingualism in education, and the learning and teaching of Asian and Western languages.

Spis treści

1 Introduction: Multilingualism in China 2 Putonghua in the context of multilingual China and the world 3 Multilingualism in urban China: The case of Guangzhou 4 Teaching Chinese as a second language to ethnic minority learners in Hong Kong 5 Language policies and linguistic ecology in Hong Kong and Macau 6 The linguistic ecology of multilingual education in minority areas of Guizhou 7 Examining the co-deployment of three languages for the Tujia, the Uyghurs, and the Inner Mongolians 8 The experiences of Tibetan nomadic children learning Chinese 9 Multi-model approaches in multilingual education for minorities in China 10 The attitudes of Yi university students in Sichuan to trilingual education 11 Towards an empowerment model for multilingual education at minzu universities in China 12 English language teacher training for minority-dominated regions in Xinjiang 13 Local knowledge instruction for young ethnic minority learners in Yunnan Province 14 The teaching of South and Southeast Asian languages in Yunnan Province15 The promotion of foreign language education and services for the ‘Belt and Road Initiative’ 16 Foreign language education in ethnic Korean schools in China