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Wei, Li; Tsang, Alfred; Wong, Nick; Lok, Pedro – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2020
This paper analyses "Kongish Daily," a Facebook page that trans-scripts local news in Hong Kong into a creative and dynamic mix of Cantonese in traditional Chinese characters, Romanisation and made-up characters, simplified Chinese, pinyin, English, Hong Kong English, other phonetic symbols, emoji and other signs and images. We trace the…
Descriptors: Creativity, Code Switching (Language), Social Media, Sino Tibetan Languages
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Flores, Nelson; Rosa, Jonathan – Harvard Educational Review, 2015
In this article, Nelson Flores and Jonathan Rosa critique appropriateness-based approaches to language diversity in education. Those who subscribe to these approaches conceptualize standardized linguistic practices as an objective set of linguistic forms that are appropriate for an academic setting. In contrast, Flores and Rosa highlight the…
Descriptors: Criticism, Multilingualism, Minority Group Students, Language Attitudes