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Linguistic Entrepreneurship in Sino-African Student Mobility

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This book explores African international students’ lived experience within Chinese higher education, including their language ideologies, investment in Chinese language learning and the (re)shaping of identities and aspirations. Whilst high English proficiency has been sought by globally mobile students to play the ‘class game’ and gain entrée to the circle of elites, considerably less attention has been paid to how shifting global structures and China’s semi-peripheral position shape its language learners’ investment and identity construction. Drawing upon a series of interviews, the book deciphers African students’ logics of linguistic exchanges within the geopolitical and geo-economic context of China-African relations. The students invested heavily into Chinese language learning and use, while displaying perfectionism, linguistic entrepreneurship and linguistic insecurity. As the value of their Chinese linguistic capital increases, they reassessed their sense of themselves and produced different social identities, which includes the idea of ‘the world is my oyster’, contributing to Africa’s sustainable development and the disposition to ‘tell China’s story well’. This work transgresses monolingual dominance (i.e. English) in the existing body of international student mobility and second language acquisition (SLA) research, as great importance is assigned to Chinese as linguistic capital in South-South student migration. The book is of interest to researchers in international higher education, international student mobilities, sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, languages education, and Chinese language teaching and learning.
 
Pages
234 pages
Collection
n.c
Parution
2024-05-04
Marque
Palgrave Macmillan
EAN papier
9789819721740
EAN PDF
9789819721757
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Nombre pages copiables
2
Nombre pages imprimables
23
Taille du fichier
6400 Ko
Prix
263,74 €
EAN EPUB
9789819721757
Informations sur l'ebook
Nombre pages copiables
2
Nombre pages imprimables
23
Taille du fichier
430 Ko
Prix
263,74 €

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