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Title Learning Chinese in diasporic communities : many pathways to being Chinese / edited by Xiao Lan Curdt-Christiansen, Andy Hancock
Published Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2014

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Series AILA Applied Linguistics Series ; volume 12
AILA applied linguistics series ; v. 12.
Contents Machine generated contents note: pt. I Family socialization patterns in language learning and literacy practices -- ch. 1 Language socialization into Chinese language and "r;Chineseness"r; in diaspora communities / Patricia A. Duff -- ch. 2 Family language policy: Is learning Chinese at odds with learning English? / Xiao Lan Curdt-Christiansen -- pt. II Complementary/heritage Chinese schools in diasporas -- ch. 3 Chinese complementary schools in Scotland and the Continua of Biliteracy / Andy Hancock -- ch. 4 Chinese heritage language schools in the United States / Chan Lu -- ch. 5 Learning and teaching Chinese in the Netherlands: The metapragmatics of a polycentric language / Kasper Juffermans -- ch. 6 Language and literacy teaching, learning and socialization in the Chinese complementary school classroom / Zhu Hua -- pt. III Bilingual Chinese educational models -- ch. 7 Chinese education in-Malaysia: Past and present / Wang Xiaomei -- ch. 8 Conflicting goals of language-in-education planning in Singapore: Chinese character (hanzi) education as a case / Zhang Dongbo -- ch. 9 Chinese language teaching in Australia / Yuzhe Zhang -- pt. IV Chinese language, culture and identity -- ch. 10 Speaking of identity? British-Chinese young people's perspectives on language and ethnic identity / Louise Archer -- ch. 11 Chinese language learning by adolescents and young adults in the Chinese diaspora: Motivation, ethnicity, and identity / Patricia Duff
Summary Issues connected with motivation, ethnicity, and identity among adolescent and young adult heritage language learners are the subject of a growing amount of research in diaspora communities. However, until recently, this research has tended to be quantitative, and the constructs were theorized and operationalized in a categorical or essentialist manner. This chapter aims to (1) describe some of the changes in theory that are relevant to Chinese heritage language (CHL) learning, seeing it as a much more dynamic, multilingual, nonlinear, and contingent process; (2) review recent research examini
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Chinese language -- Study and teaching -- Foreign speakers
Chinese diaspora.
Chinese -- Foreign countries.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Southeast Asian Languages.
Chinese -- Foreign countries
Chinese diaspora
Chinese language -- Study and teaching -- Foreign speakers
Form Electronic book
Author Curdt-Christiansen, Xiao Lan.
Hancock, Andy (Lecturer)
ISBN 9789027270245
9027270244
1306889758
9781306889759
9027205299
9789027205292
9789027205308
9027205302