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Publication details [#64737]

Chan, Jim Yee Him. 2018. Attitudes and identities in learning English and Chinese as a lingua franca: a bilingual learners’ perspective. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 39 (9) : 759–775.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Routledge

Annotation

This inquiry collated bilingual learners’ selection of English and Putonghua learning targets and explored their language attitudes and identities in relation to these two ‘great’ languages, both of which have played notable roles in colonial and post-colonial Hong Kong. This inquiry advocates the chance of practising a World Englishes-oriented framework to the study of Chinese, given its enhancing global perceptibility, linguistic variation and elaborate employment around the world.