ERIC Number: EJ1359229
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2022
Pages: 16
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ISSN: ISSN-0950-0782
EISSN: EISSN-1747-7581
Language Negotiation Moments of Ethnic Tibetan Students in People's Republic of China: An Identity Perspective
Wang, Hao; Chao, Xia
Language and Education, v36 n4 p346-361 2022
Drawing from Darvin and Norton's (2015) investment model, this study investigates ethnic Tibetan students' multilingual practice and its influence on these students' ethnic identity construction at an interior university in People's Republic of China (PRC). Based on multiple data sources, findings from this study indicate that Tibetan students used specific multilingual semiotic resources from Tibetan, Mandarin, and English languages in constructing their ethnic identities in the interior university. On one hand, Tibetan language is both passive in developing their membership as legitimate Mandarin speakers and critical in their English language learning. On the other hand, they experienced different language negotiation moments in multilingual and monolingual spaces, which further impact on their investment in language learning. Discussions and implications center on these students' different investment in multilingual practices in both academic and non-academic settings and their negotiations of (re)becoming ethnic Tibetans. Implications are provided regarding alternative pedagogies that aim at recognizing the situatedness of Tibetan students' multilingual resources in constructing their ethnic identity.
Descriptors: Ethnic Groups, Sino Tibetan Languages, Multilingualism, Language Usage, Self Concept, Semiotics, Mandarin Chinese, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Monolingualism, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, Minority Group Students, College Students
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Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: China
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