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Staying Connected during COVID-19: The Social and Communicative Role of an Ethnic Online Community of Chinese International Students in South Korea
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Jang, In Chull; Choi, Lee Jin – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2020
As the public health threat posed by the COVID-19 pandemic is still evolving globally, many linguistic minorities are struggling to obtain accurate and timely health information about the disease and its prevention and treatment in their native language. This study argues that existing ethnic online communities can play an important role in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, Language Minorities
Performing "Authentic" Bilingualism: Authenticity, Novel Respelling Forms, and Language Ideology in South Korea
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Choi, Lee Jin – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2017
The process of globalization, along with the advent of Internet technology, has resulted in the increasing presence of written mixed-language discourses produced and used by multilinguals in online spaces (e. g. online chat, instant messaging, and online discussion boards). Despite the fact that multilingual texts have become more visible and…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Language Attitudes, Multilingualism, Ethnography