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Pains and Gains of Ethnic Multilingual Learners in China
Ge Wang
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Description for Pains and Gains of Ethnic Multilingual Learners in China
Hardback. Series: Multilingual Education. Num Pages: 227 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, 14 colour illustrations, 9 black & white tables, 16 colour. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2AB; CJA; JHM; JNFR; JNMN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 508.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Springer Verlag, Singapore Singapore
Number of pages
227
Condition
New
Series
Multilingual Education
Number of Pages
202
Place of Publication
Singapore, Singapore
ISBN
9789811006593
SKU
V9789811006593
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99-15
About Ge Wang
Dr. Ge Wang is the professor of applied linguistics at School of Foreign Languages, Yunnan University, China. He has been engaged in English teaching and research in multilingual education over 20 years. He obtained his PhD in English Language Education from the University of Hong Kong and was the 2014-2015 Sino-American Fulbright research visiting scholar at Graduate School of Education, ... Read more
Reviews for Pains and Gains of Ethnic Multilingual Learners in China
“This detailed and illuminating ethnography of two students at the Yunnan University of the Nationalities examines the obstacles, identity tensions, and learning challenges that they face when in contact with national and university-level norms and policies. … Wang sheds much-needed light on the educational struggles of Chinese ‘ethnic multilingual learners’, with the hope of informing future policy direction and further ... Read more