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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.
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.
This volume is the first to offer a comprehensive and, at the same
time, in-depth examination of the spread of English and English
language education across Greater China. It consists of two parts.
Part 1 presents rich sociolinguistic data for easy comparisons
between mainland China, Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macao,
while Part 2 explores in depth the phenomena inside mainland China
to provide contrastive analysis of English language use and
education in economically booming areas such as Shanghai and
Guangdong and underdeveloped regions like Xinjiang and Yunnan. With
the descriptive, comparative and analytical accounts of different
territories ranging from nation-states to small villages in remote
areas, theories on the spread of English, second/third language
acquisition and identity are challenged with new concepts proposed
and established.
The development of intercultural competence is the avowed purpose
of teachers/trainers in commercial training and further and higher
education, and yet the approaches are often seen as different and
even in opposition. This book shows that there is complementarity
in 'education' and 'training' in theory and in practice. The first
group of chapters focuses on analysis of intercultural experience
and the competence needed to be successful in that experience. The
following chapters describe the practice of courses in both
commercial and educational contexts where it becomes evident that
'education' and 'training' are indeed complementary without denying
the tensions which exist and the expectations different learner
groups may have. This book is thus not simply another discussion of
the theory of interculturality but a juxtaposition of theory and
practice to the benefit of both.
The internationalisation of higher education has led to study
abroad being a large scale phenomenon. Students spend short periods
on study tours or a year or more taking courses in foreign
universities. Studying aboard cannot be dissociated however from
learning to live in another country and culture. The need to adapt
to a new education system is obvious but the inevitable
difficulties of living in another culture for the purpose of study
are also an important facet of the whole experience. Chapters in
this book report research into this whole phenomenon. Authors have
researched students travelling across the world, from East to West
and West to East, and also the effects of studying in countries
which seem to be more like students' own. Each chapter explains the
case in question, the findings from the research and what the
implications might be. The second part of each chapter is then a
critical reflection on the research methods used. The book thus
provides a guide to the complexity of this kind of research and how
that complexity can be handled with appropriate techniques and
methods.
The complexity and diversity of the linguistic situations,
practices, policies and theories of bilingual education is widely
acknowledged in a country with a population of 1.3 billion people
consisting of 56 officially recognised indigenous nationalities
speaking more than 80 languages. This book addresses this
complexity and diversity with a comprehensive examination of issues
in bilingual education for both minority and majority nationalities
in China and explores the links between the two major forms of
bilingual education. It includes voices that are 'emic' or 'etic',
local or international, and voices that come from those who work at
the forefront of bilingual education or in the development of
theory. All these voices are needed as different and divergent
perspectives represent a reality
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