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Article
Promoting Multilingual Education in Xinjiang: Challenges and Possible Solutions
Author(s)
Zhang Ping
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DOI:10.17265/2161-6248/2016.07.004
Affiliation(s)
Xinjiang Education Institute, Xinjiang, China; Bangor University, Bangor, UK
ABSTRACT
Multilingual education in
Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) has attracted attention from both the
educators and scholars. The need for bilingual and multilingual education in
XUAR in recent years has become even more important and urgent in order to
develop regional economics and maintain stability in this very multicultural
region. During the implementation of bilingual and multilingual education in
XUAR, great efforts have been putting on promoting Mandarin Chinese (L2) as the
language of instruction, as well as minority language (L1) and English (L3) in
order to promote, strengthen, and develop it quickly. However, it is necessary
to highlight the importance of maintaining the L1 and its culture, which
contribute to the cultural pluralism and linguistic diversity during the
promotion of bilingual and multilingual education. The possible suggestions
would been made through three approaches, which are documentation, top-down
revitalization, and bottom-up revitalization with reference to the XUAR
situation. The model of the fourth way has been adopted to summarize the ways
of maintenance and revitalization of L1 and cultures in XUAR.
KEYWORDS
multilingual education, language, culture
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