Language Education in China : Policy and Experience from 1949: Policy and Experience from 1949Hong Kong University Press, 1 paź 2005 - 292 Language Education in China: Policy and Experience from 1949 is unprecedented as a comprehensive study of the multilingual circumstances in China. It tracks policy changes in the learning of Chinese, foreign languages and minority ethnic languages in China since the establishment of the People’s Republic of China in 1949. On the basis of survey and interview data, the experiences of different age cohorts of learners are presented as "windows" to the realities of language education policy implementation over the last half century. The effects of political changes, language backgrounds and various motivations for learning, at both the national and individual levels, are vividly presented in this composite story of China and learners in China. |
Spis treści
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2 Propagating Standard Chinese | 33 |
3 Promoting English and Other Foreign languages | 71 |
4 Developing Minority Languages and Bilingualism | 123 |
5 Conclusion | 175 |
Appendix I Questionnaire for the Survey of Han Chinese Learners | 199 |
Appendix II Interview Questions for Han Chinese Learners | 224 |
Appendix III Questionnaire for the Survey of Chinese Panel Heads Primary Schools | 226 |
Appendix IV Questionnaire for the Survey of Foreign Languages Department Heads Universities | 235 |
Appendix V Interview Questions for English Panel Heads Secondary Schools | 254 |
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academic or technical Agree Strongly disagree Beijing bilingualism broadcasts Chinese dialect Chinese language Chinese learners classmates classroom coastal region compact disk competence conversing Cultural Revolution Disagree Agree Strongly Dong language education in China ethnic groups Excellent Not sure foreign language specialists graduate Guangxi Guiliu dialect hanyu pinyin Hong Kong interaction interior region interviews Japanese junior secondary Language Commission language education language policy learners in China learning Chinese learning English learning Putonghua lessons per week linguistic Listening Miao Ministry of Education minority groups minority language minority learners minority respondents Mulao multilingual northern dialect northern interior Number of respondents Okay Excellent People's Republic primary school proficiency pronunciation propagation respondents Percentage Roman alphabet Russian second foreign language secondary school senior secondary school Sometimes southern dialect speakers speak Putonghua standard started learning Strongly agree Disagree syllabus Table tapes Total writing script written Chinese Yao language Zhou Zhuang language