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Fan Fang; Yating Huang – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2023
This article examines Teochew-speaking learners of English as an example of linguistic minority students' use of and attitudes toward everyday translanguaging practices. By conducting a series of semi-structured interviews, this qualitative study specifically examines students' translanguaging process with their mother tongue -- Teochew (L1), as…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Language Usage, Native Language, Mandarin Chinese
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Zhang, Rui; Chan, Brian Hok-Shing – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
This paper examines the translanguaging practice of two EFL teachers in a Xinjiang university, where English and Mandarin Chinese are predominant but Uyghur is minoritised as a medium of instruction. We focus on data in which the teachers translanguage across all three languages and make a case for the conception of pedagogical translanguaging…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Native Language, Mandarin Chinese, English (Second Language)
Hefright, Brook Emerson – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This dissertation explores Bai language use in Jianchuan County, China. On the basis of interviews with 42 language users, transcripts of spontaneous conversation and elicited narratives, excerpts from Bai texts in an alphabetic orthography and Chinese characters, and six months of participant observation, I demonstrate how language users'…
Descriptors: Linguistic Borrowing, Participant Observation, Romanization, Ideology