Publications

Publication details [#56755]

Gao, Fang. 2012. Imagined identity of ethnic Koreans and its implication for bilingual education in China. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 15 (3) : 343–353.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

acculturation | bilingual education | ethnicity | identity negotiation | language use

Language as a subject

Chinese | Korean

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This analysis of the life histories of two young ethnic Korean students in China shows that their negotiation of imagined identities takes place in-between the polarized stances of assimilation and separation, and discusses the consequences for bilingual education.