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Publication Date: 2015
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Becoming Transnational: Exploring Multiple Identities of Students in a Mandarin-English Bilingual Programme in Canada
Zhang, Yan; Guo, Yan
Globalisation, Societies and Education, v13 n2 p210-229 2015
Guided by post-structural perspectives of identities as processes of becoming and transculturation and transnationalism, this study explores how multilingual students in a Mandarin-English bilingual programme form their sense of identities in a dynamic process. Multiple forms of data are collected, including observations, interviews and documents. The findings indicate that multilingual students are mobile, namely, they move across linguistic, cultural and ethnic spaces of interaction. In addition, they challenge the dominant discourse of any fixed and hyphenated identity and take up transcultural and transnational identities that allow their comfortable circulation among different worlds. This study calls for a need to unfold children's multiple and mobile identities and explores new possibilities for life.
Descriptors: Self Concept, Multilingualism, Bilingual Education Programs, Observation, Biculturalism, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries, Freehand Drawing, Asians, Student Attitudes, Citizenship, Teaching Methods, Semi Structured Interviews
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Canada
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