Chinese Language Use by School-Aged Chinese Australians

Download or read book Chinese Language Use by School-Aged Chinese Australians written by Yilu Yang and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-11-30 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the use of Chinese by school-aged Chinese Australians from a dual-track culturalisation perspective. Drawing upon interviews, participant observations and documentary analysis, the author discusses why and how these children learn and use Chinese in multiple social settings, and how they construct their understanding of language and identities in doing so. The book will appeal to students and scholars in the fields of sociolinguistics, migration studies, sociology of education, language and communication amongst other areas in the social sciences.