Shouhui Zhao
List of John Benjamins publications for which Shouhui Zhao plays a role.
Journal
ISSN 0957-6851 | E-ISSN 1569-9838
Articles
2014 Review of Beckett & Postiglione (2012): China’s Assimilationist Language Policy: The Impact on Indigenous/Minority Literacy and Social Harmony Anxiety, Insecurity, and Border Crossing: Language Contact in a Globalizing World, Hiramoto, Mie and Joseph Sung-Yul Park (eds.), pp. 321–325 | Review
2014 Chapter 8. Conflicting goals of language-in-education planning in Singapore: Chinese character (汉字 hanzi) education as a case Learning Chinese in Diasporic Communities: Many pathways to being Chinese, Curdt-Christiansen, Xiao Lan and Andy Hancock (eds.), pp. 159–180 | Article
This study examines the conflicting nature of official language-in-education planning goals in Singapore through analysing, firstly, the inconsistencies in curriculum reform documents at different levels of the goals and pedagogies of Chinese character (æ±‰å— hanzi) teaching; and secondly, the… read more
2012 Individual agency in language planning: Chinese script reform as a case study Language Problems and Language Planning 36:1, pp. 1–24 | Article
The literature of language policy and planning (LPP) focuses predominantly on the process of policy formulation and planning programs for implementation, i.e., to use Cooper’s terms, on ‘why’, ‘what’ and ‘how’. The question of the people (‘by whom’ and ‘to whom’) involved in the planning process —… read more
2010 Chinese education in Singapore: Constraints of bilingual policy from the perspectives of status and prestige planning Language Problems and Language Planning 34:3, pp. 236–258 | Article
Bilingual policy in Singapore has been characterized by dynamic government interventions since the nation’s independence in 1965. The elevation of English to the medium of instruction in education has inevitably come into conflict with Chinese, the lingua franca of Singapore’s dominant ethnic group. read more