Bilingual Education and Minority Language Maintenance in China The Role of Schools in Saving the Yi Language /

• Main Authors: Zhang, Lubei (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Tsung, Linda (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Multilingual Education, 31
• Subjects: Language and education.; Educational policy.; Education and state.; Chinese language.; Linguistic minorities.; Multilingualism.; Language Education.; Educational Policy and Politics.; Chinese.; Minority Languages.

This book looks closely at Yi bilingual education practice in the southwest of China from an educationalist's perspective and, in doing so, provides an insight toward our understanding of minority language maintenance and bilingual education implementation in China. The book provides an overvie...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Creating the Yi: History, Society, and Languages
• 3. Case Study of a Yi-Han Bilingual School in Liangshan
• 4. Case Studies of the Sani Yi in Yunnan
• 5. Language Attitudes and Ethnic Identity of the Present-Day Yi
• 6. Language Used in Public Spaces
• 7. Bilingual Education and Minority Languages in China: Prospects and Challenges.