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Heni, Xiong; Xiaofang, Wang – Chinese Education & Society, 2019
Basil Bernstein argues that speech events bear class characteristics, and different social classes exhibit different linguistic typologies, coding and meaning. Although working-class language is characterized as a closed code in terms of its language structure, it possesses unique educational power, specifically manifesting as its unique meanings…
Descriptors: Working Class, Social Class, Language Variation, Speech Communication
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Xuelong, Hu; Yongjiu, Kang – Chinese Education & Society, 2019
Existing studies have found that the starting point for class divisions is the family: while schools play a interrupting role, it is passive compared to the roles of the family and children themselves. It is therefore taken for granted when rural students are screened out by school education or fail to test into good universities. If the…
Descriptors: Rural Population, Foreign Countries, Cultural Capital, Family Life