Trilingualism in Education in China: Models and Challenges

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)....

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Những tác giả chính: Feng, Anwei, Adamson, Bob
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spelling oai:scholar.dlu.edu.vn:DLU123456789-600702023-11-11T07:12:32Z Trilingualism in Education in China: Models and Challenges Feng, Anwei Adamson, Bob Applied Linguistics Language Education Multilingual education -- China 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. 2016-04-15T03:17:08Z 2016-04-15T03:17:08Z 2015 Book 978-94-017-9352-0 978-94-017-9351-3 https://scholar.dlu.edu.vn/thuvienso/handle/DLU123456789/60070 en application/pdf Springer
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topic Applied Linguistics
Language Education
Multilingual education -- China
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Language Education
Multilingual education -- China
Feng, Anwei
Adamson, Bob
Trilingualism in Education in China: Models and Challenges
description 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.
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Adamson, Bob
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Adamson, Bob
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title Trilingualism in Education in China: Models and Challenges
title_short Trilingualism in Education in China: Models and Challenges
title_full Trilingualism in Education in China: Models and Challenges
title_fullStr Trilingualism in Education in China: Models and Challenges
title_full_unstemmed Trilingualism in Education in China: Models and Challenges
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url https://scholar.dlu.edu.vn/thuvienso/handle/DLU123456789/60070
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