Interculturality in Learning Mandarin Chinese in British Universities

Download or read book Interculturality in Learning Mandarin Chinese in British Universities written by Tinghe Jin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-29 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As China and Chinese language learning moves centre stage economically and politically, questions of interculturality assume even greater significance. In this book interculturality draws attention to the processes involved in people engaging and exchanging with each other across languages, nationalities and ethnicities. The study, which adopts an ecological perspective, critically examines a range of issues and uses a variety of sources to conduct a multifaceted investigation. Data gathered from interviews with students of Mandarin sit alongside a critical discussion of a wide range of sources. Interculturality in Learning Mandarin Chinese in British Universities will be of interest to students and academics studying and researching Chinese language education, and academics working in the fields of language and intercultural communication, intercultural education and language education in general.