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Learning Chinese in diasporic communities : many pathways to being Chinese /

Issues connected with motivation, ethnicity, and identity among adolescent and young adult heritage language learners are the subject of a growing amount of research in diaspora communities. However, until recently, this research has tended to be quantitative, and the constructs were theorized and o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Curdt-Christiansen, Xiao Lan, Hancock, Andy (Lecturer)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2014.
Colección:AILA applied linguistics series ; v. 12.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Issues connected with motivation, ethnicity, and identity among adolescent and young adult heritage language learners are the subject of a growing amount of research in diaspora communities. However, until recently, this research has tended to be quantitative, and the constructs were theorized and operationalized in a categorical or essentialist manner. This chapter aims to (1) describe some of the changes in theory that are relevant to Chinese heritage language (CHL) learning, seeing it as a much more dynamic, multilingual, nonlinear, and contingent process; (2) review recent research examini.
Descripción Física:1 online resource
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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