Pérez-Milans, Miguel;
(2017)
Bilingual Education in Hong Kong.
In: García, Ofelia and Lin, Angel MY, (eds.)
Bilingual and Multilingual Education.
(pp. 207-218).
Springer: Cham, Switzerland.
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Abstract
The field of bilingual education in Hong Kong provides a perfect window to study the transformation of education in the context of wider processes of economic, institutional, political, sociolinguistic, and cultural changes. As Hong Kong changed from a British colony to a Special Administrative Region (SAR, hereafter) of the People’s Republic of China, the space of language education has seen the overlapping of old and new discourses regarding what languages should be learned or taught, by whom, when, and to what degree. Such discourses and the related policies which have contributed to their institutionalization cannot be detached from shifting conditions as to who gets to decide what language repertoires are attributed value in which sociolinguistic markets vis-à-vis local and translocal processes of destabilization of the modern politics of language and culture. This entry traces major works that have reported and described these processes, with attention to their implications for the existing language-in-education policies and practices in contemporary Hong Kong. Recurrent problems and future directions for research are also discussed.
| Type: | Book chapter |
|---|---|
| Title: | Bilingual Education in Hong Kong |
| ISBN-13: | 978-3-319-02257-4 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-319-02258-1_17 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02258-1_17 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Bilingual education; Hong Kong; Sociolinguistics; Language ideology; Language policy |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Culture, Communication and Media |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10183604 |
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