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'The Culture of China Is Broad and Profound, with All Rivers Flowing into the Sea': Plurilingual and Pluricultural Competence and Identity among University Students in China
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Fei Tang; Raees Calafato – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
As part of its ambitious Belt and Road initiative, the Chinese government, cognizant of the fact that establishing strong people-to-people bonds locally, regionally, and internationally will be key to the initiative's success and that languages will play a pivotal role in facilitating this, has called for the diversification of language programmes…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Self Concept
The Case of isiZulu for Non-Mother Tongue Speakers at the University of Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa--Is the Compulsory Language Module Promoting Social Cohesion?
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Naidoo, Shamila; Gokool, Roshni; Ndebele, Hloniphani – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2018
The Minister of Higher Education, Blade Nzimande's, call on the 5th of April 2011 for South African universities to implement a policy which saw all university graduates exiting with a credit in an African language was the catalyst for the University of KwaZulu-Natal's decision to implement a compulsory isiZulu module for all non-mother tongue…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Compulsory Education, African Languages, College Second Language Programs