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Record Nr.

UNINA9910254972403321

Autore

Wang Ge

Titolo

Pains and Gains of Ethnic Multilingual Learners in China : An Ethnographic Case Study / / by Ge Wang

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore : , : Springer Nature Singapore : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2016

ISBN

981-10-0661-X

Edizione

[1st ed. 2016.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (216 p.)

Collana

Multilingual Education, , 2213-3216 ; ; 17

Disciplina

371.82900951

Soggetti

Language and languages - Study and teaching

Applied linguistics

Anthropology

Language Education

Applied Linguistics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface -- Foreword -- Acknowledgment -- Contents -- list of Tables -- List of Figures -- List of Pictures -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 The Odyssey -- Chapter 2 Conceptualizing Ethnic Multilingual learners in China -- Chapter 3 The Study of Multilingual learners -- Chapter 4 The Profile of Yunnan University of Nationalities and Methodology -- Chapter 5 The Case of Conclusion -- References -- Appendices -- Appendix A -- Survey Questions for the Study -- Appendix B -- Learning History -- Appendix C -- Interview questions.

Sommario/riassunto

This book introduces an ethnographic case study of two English majors of ethnic minority at YUN, a local university of nationalities in southwest China. Drawing on the theories of post-structuralism and critical multiculturalism, this book mainly studies two female multilingual individuals in Yunnan, China. By scrutinizing university policies, curriculum, personal learning histories, and by discussing the unequal power relationship between national policies, school curricula, and ethnic multilingual learners,this book provides information at a micro-level on how the two ethnic minority students, who have acquired three languages (L1-native, L2-Mandarin Chinese, and L3-



English), successfully navigate the Chinese higher education system as multilingual learners despite various tensions, difficulties, and challenges. How these students construct their multiple identities as well as significant factors affecting such identity construction is also discussed. This book will contribute to the scholarship of policy and practice in ethnic multilingual education in China by addressing the challenges for tertiary institutions and ethnic multilingual learners. The author also points out that multiculturalism as a discourse of education might help ease the tension of being an ethnic minority and a Chinese national, and reduce the danger of being assimilated or being marginalized. .