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Download full textLu, Siyi; Singh, Michael – Education Sciences, 2017
There are media and research reports of international students from the People's Republic of China as being deficient in the capabilities for thinking critically. This paper argues for a shift in the frame for researching their critical thinking, moving the focus from the ethno-national label of "Chinese students" to "multilingual…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Critical Thinking, Multilingualism, Bilingual Students
Direct linkAdamson, Bob; Feng, Anwei – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2009
In recent decades, the People's Republic of China (PRC) has instigated language policies in education ostensibly designed to foster trilingualism in ethnic minority groups. The policies, which, as this paper shows, vary from region to region, encompass the minority group's home language, Chinese, and English. Based on data arising from interviews,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Public Policy, Chinese
Marshall, David F. – 1988
The insights of 12 foreign scholars and language scientists into the battle over making English the "de jure" official language of the United States are presented. The opinions come from England, Canada, the Philippines, the People's Republic of China, Australia, Belgium, India, and the Federal Republic of Germany. The consensus of these…
Descriptors: English, Foreign Countries, Language Attitudes, Official Languages
Peer reviewedLin, Angel M. Y. – Linguistics and Education, 1996
Examines the historical and socioeconomic context of classroom code switching in Hong Kong. Empirical analyses of actual instances of classroom code switching reveal this action to be the teachers' and students' local pragmatic response to the symbolic domination of English. The article concludes with a cost-benefit analysis of the Hong Kong…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Cantonese, Class Activities, Classroom Communication
