Becoming Bilingual in School and Home in Tibetan Areas of China: Stories of Struggle

• Main Author: LaMuCuo, YiXi (Author, 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, 34
• Subjects: Language and education.; Bilingualism.; Educational policy.; Education and state.; International education .; Comparative education.; Language Education.; Educational Policy and Politics.; International and Comparative Education.

This book contributes significantly to our understanding of bilingualism and bilingual education as a sociocultural and political process by offering analyses of the stories of five Tibetan individual journeys of becoming bilingual in the Tibetan areas of China at four different points in time from...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Understanding Bilingual Stories: Literature Review
• Finding Stories: Methodology
• Gegan's Story
• Gegan's Story: Becoming a Tibetan Teacher
• Three Stories of People Becoming Bilinguals in the Tibetan Areas of China from 1966
• Understanding Stories: Discussion
• What Stories Reveal: Conclusion.