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Fan Fang; Xinxin Yao – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2025
Amidst the rapid processes of industrialization and globalization, the interplay between minority and majority languages has garnered increasing attention, highlighting concerns surrounding linguistic diversity and the efficacious enactment of language policies. This study delves into the intricacies of language planning within the familial…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Family Relationship, Native Language, Second Language Learning
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Jie Zeng; Yanling Zhao – AILA Review, 2023
This scholarly investigation delves into the metamorphosis of China's language policies across three distinct epochs spanning over two millennia, tracing from ancient China to contemporary times. Employing a sociolinguistic lens, the analysis elucidates the historical trajectories of these policies, accentuating their theoretical and pragmatic…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Language Planning, Minority Groups, Ethnic Groups
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Jungmin Kwon; Wenyang Sun; Minhye Son – Journal of Literacy Research, 2024
In this article, we--three Asian MotherScholars in the field of language and literacy education--conducted a collaborative self-study to examine how our individual and shared experiences as transnational mothers of emergent bilinguals have shaped our ways of promoting bilingualism and biliteracy. Our study drew on transnational feminist…
Descriptors: Mothers, Experience, Bilingualism, Barriers
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Wang, Sixuan; Hatoss, Anikó – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2023
This study explores language practices of the Blang people and their perceptions of the changes in language ecology through the lens of chronotopes, hoping to better understand patterns of language shift in the Blang community in China. It takes a qualitative approach and draws on semi-structured interviews and ethnographic observations conducted…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Language Skill Attrition, Native Language, Second Language Learning
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Huiyu Zhang; Yayu Shi; Zihe Li – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Based on Spolsky's (2004) tripartite framework for language policy, this study explores language practices, language ideology, and language management in relation to minority languages, Putonghua, and English in ethnic minority families in Yunnan, China. Through observations of and interviews with nine interethnic marriage families in Kena Village…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Usage, Family Environment, Public Policy
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Jia Chen; Lin Wang; Youngsoon Kim – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
To examine the specific education challenges that minority language-speaking parents encounter in teaching their children heritage language, this study conducted in-depth interviews with ten Chinese immigrant parents in Korean-Chinese multicultural families. Textual analysis of the interviews revealed that 'One Parent One Language' is a natural…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Immigrants, Parent Attitudes, Teaching Methods
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Tairan Qiu – Reading Research Quarterly, 2025
Using transnational literacies as the theoretical framework, this qualitative case study explores the transnational language and literacy practices of one female China-U.S. transnational adolescent, Meiyi, and her family. The data corpus includes critical ethnographic data generated over 3 years. Through data generation and analysis guided by…
Descriptors: Multiple Literacies, Language Usage, Literacy, Chinese
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Fan Fang; Yating Huang – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2023
This article examines Teochew-speaking learners of English as an example of linguistic minority students' use of and attitudes toward everyday translanguaging practices. By conducting a series of semi-structured interviews, this qualitative study specifically examines students' translanguaging process with their mother tongue -- Teochew (L1), as…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Language Usage, Native Language, Mandarin Chinese
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Guo, Xiaoyan; Gu, Mingyue – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2018
This article explores how a cohort of tertiary-level Uyghur students contested and negotiated their identities through multilingual practices in the receiving community. Drawing upon interview data from fieldwork, this study indicates that these students experienced essentialist understandings and negative views in the host society. Participants…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Minority Group Students, Self Concept
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Phuntsog, Nawang – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2018
This conceptual paper reports the rare and unprecedented mother tongue based schooling of Tibetan children in exile in India as a success story that can serve as a model for displaced and indigenous peoples. A brief historical development of Tibetan language is offered to highlight the circuitous journey of Tibetan language from the indigenous to…
Descriptors: Sino Tibetan Languages, Refugees, Minority Groups, Language of Instruction
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Phuntsog, Nawang – Intercultural Education, 2019
Since the introduction of the Chinese colonial education system into Tibet in the 1960s, the Tibetan language has been caught in the crossfire. Because of Tibetan language's perceived strong relationship with national identity and its alleged separatist implications, the Chinese leadership has always maintained an uneasy and sceptical outlook on…
Descriptors: Minority Group Students, Foreign Countries, Sino Tibetan Languages, Self Concept
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Bilik, Naran; Erdene, Has – Frontiers of Education in China, 2016
Anxieties about Chinese-Mongolian-English trilingual program in Inner Mongolia reflect three linguistic ideologies, that is, the instrumental and the essentialist among Mongolian elites and the assimilationist among Han elites. Mongolian ethnicity is on trial in front of an upsurge of Chinese nationalism. Both pro and con trilingual education…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ethnicity, Multilingualism, Chinese
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Xiong, Weiyan; Jacob, W. James; Ye, Huiyuan – Frontiers of Education in China, 2016
The purpose of this study is to compare Korean and Mongol minorities in the People's Republic of China in terms of their native language preservation and educational experiences at the higher education level, and to investigate differences and similarities between Korean and Mongol minorities' language issues. Content area experts on Chinese…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Minorities, Higher Education, Educational Change
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Choi, Julie – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2012
I interrogate my personal diaries documenting my life in New York, Beijing, Tokyo, and Sydney over a 20-year period. Taking bearings from Bakhtinian thoughts, I explore the emergence of my post-diasporic identity as a second generation Korean American through watching South Korean dramas. By conversing with journals kept over a 20-year period, I…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Korean Americans, Korean, Diaries
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Zhou, Minglang – Bilingual Research Journal, 2001
From 1949 to 1957, the Chinese Communist Party's language policy took a pluralistic approach. A Chinese-monopolistic language policy was dominant, 1958-77. A pluralistic approach was again adopted from 1977 to the present. The Chinese experience illustrates how language minorities everywhere must balance maintaining their home language with…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Educational History, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education
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