Multilingual China

National, Minority and Foreign Languages
Herausgeber: Adamson, Bob; Feng, Anwei

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 503g
• ISBN-13: 9780367251031
• ISBN-10: 0367251035
• Artikelnr.: 62800743

Autorenporträt

Bob Adamson is Visiting Professor at the School of Education and English, University of Nottingham Ningbo China. He formerly held the UNESCO Chair at The Education University of Hong Kong. His research covers multilingual education, comparative education, and curriculum reform. His books include Trilingualism in education in China: Models and challenges (with Anwei Feng, Springer, 2015) and China's English: A history of English in Chinese education (Hong Kong University Press, 2004). Anwei Feng is Professor of Education at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China. He has had extensive teaching and researching experiences in many countries and territories in the world, including Hong Kong, Qatar, Singapore, the UK as well as China. He teaches, supervises, researches and publishes in areas including multilingualism and multilingual education and intercultural studies in education.

Inhaltsangabe

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