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This book brings together new theoretical perspectives and bilingual education models from different sociopolitical and cultural contexts across the globe in order to address the importance of sociocultural, educational and linguistic environments that create, enhance or limit the ways in which diasporic children and young people acquire the 'Chinese' language. The chapters present a variety of research-based studies on Chinese heritage language education and bilingual education drawing on detailed investigations of formal and informal educational input including language socialization in families, community heritage language schools and government sponsored educational institutions. Exploring the many pathways of learning 'Chinese' and being 'Chinese', this volume also examines the complex nature of language acquisition and development, involving language attitudes and ideologies as well as linguistic practices and identity formation. Learning Chinese in Diasporic Communities is intended for researchers, teacher-educators, students and practitioners in the fields of Chinese language education and bilingual education and more broadly those concerned with language policy studies and sociolinguistics.Product Identifiers
PublisherBenjamins Publishing Company, John
ISBN-109027205302
ISBN-139789027205308
eBay Product ID (ePID)202770847
Product Key Features
Number of Pages258 Pages
Publication NameLearning Chinese in Diasporic Communities : Many Pathways to Being Chinese
LanguageEnglish
SubjectChinese, Linguistics / General
Publication Year2014
TypeLanguage Course
AuthorAndy Hancock
Subject AreaForeign Language Study, Language Arts & Disciplines
SeriesAila Applied Linguistics Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Additional Product Features
LCCN2014-008331
Dewey Edition23
Series Volume Number12
Target AudienceCollege Audience
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal495.182/4
Lc Classification NumberPl1065.L385 2014