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Sung, Chit Cheung Matthew – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2022
This paper reports the findings of a qualitative study on a group of mainland Chinese students' multilingual experiences during their cross-border studies in a Hong Kong university from a language ideological perspective. Drawing on in-depth interviews as the primary dataset, the study investigated the language ideologies held by the participants…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Multilingualism, Language Attitudes, Mandarin Chinese
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Ron Darvin; Yue Zhang – Language Awareness, 2023
Drawing on the pedagogical framework of critical multilingual language awareness, this article demonstrates how the production of a YouTube video explaining lexical gaps can help language learners construct a translanguaging space and invest in decolonizing practices. Based on a study examining the language and literacy practices of university…
Descriptors: Translation, Code Switching (Language), Native Language, Second Language Learning
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Albury, Nathan John; Diaz, Max – Language Awareness, 2021
This paper proposes "perceptual multilingualism" as a research interest within the broader folk linguistic enterprise. By drawing on the geolinguistic mapping tasks popular in perceptual dialectology -- whereby participants are asked to draw and depict dialectal diversity in a given region -- we show that perceptual multilingualism can…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Foreign Countries, Power Structure, Folk Culture
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Sung, Chit Cheung Matthew – Research Papers in Education, 2021
This paper investigates mainland Chinese students' experiences of learning English as a second language (L2) in a multilingual university in Hong Kong, with particular attention to their negotiation of participation and identity. Drawing on a series of in-depth interviews with a group of mainland Chinese students, the study revealed that their…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Power Structure
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Gu, Michelle – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2017
This paper, drawing on the notion of symbolic competence and insights from complexity theory, investigates the multilingual practices of university students in group discussions. The data analysis reveals that the protagonists' language uses index the various ways in which their rehearsal of potential identities, language ideologies, histories,…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Intercultural Communication, College Students, Communication Strategies
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Tsou, Benjamin K. – Current Issues in Language and Society, 1996
Presents details of the language shifts among the various sections of the Chinese-speaking population in Hong Kong and analyzes patterns of allegiance. Notes that complex social, economic, and political pressures will affect future language in Hong Kong and that, within the domains of family, work, and others, the use of Modern Standard Chinese is…
Descriptors: Cantonese, Change Agents, Chinese, Economic Factors