Polite Chinese Children Revisited: Creativity and the Use of Codeswitching in the Chinese Complementary School Classroom

Autor/inn/en	Wei, Li; Wu, Chao-Jung
Titel	Polite Chinese Children Revisited: Creativity and the Use of Codeswitching in the Chinese Complementary School Classroom
Quelle	In: International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 12 (2009) 2, S.193-211 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1367-0050
Schlagwörter	Multilingualism; Ideology; Language Proficiency; Bilingualism; Asians; Minority Groups; Code Switching (Language); Foreign Countries; Chinese; English (Second Language); Second Language Learning; Creativity; Teaching Methods; Educational Policy; Language Research; Classroom Communication; Language Usage; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Mehrsprachigkeit; Multilingualismus; Ideologie; Language skill; Language skills; Sprachkompetenz; Bilingualismus; Asian; Asiat; Asiatin; Asiaten; Asiate; Ethnische Minderheit; Ausland; China; Chinesen; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Kreativität; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Sprachforschung; Klassengespräch; Sprachgebrauch; Großbritannien
Abstract	The ideology of monolingualism prevails throughout society, including within minority ethnic communities who are bilingual and multilingual. Some minority ethnic communities in Britain believe that the response to the dominance of English language is to replace it with other languages. Complementary schools--language and culture classes organised by minority ethnic communities--often impose a One Language Only (OLON) or One Language at a Time (OLAT) policy. There is still widespread fear of bilingual and multilingual practices such as codeswitching. Drawing on data from a large research project on multilingual practices in complementary schools, this paper examines the use of codeswitching by Chinese-English bilingual children as a symbolic and creative resource. A particular focus is on the tensions between the school ideologies and policies and the actual practices by the teachers and pupils, as well as the differences between the teachers and pupils' language proficiencies and preferences. Examples of codeswitching will be used to show how the pupils resist the OLON and OLAT policies; how they manipulate their language proficiency to undermine the teachers' authority and gain control of classroom interaction; and how they use codeswitching creatively and strategically to push and break the boundaries between the old and the new, the conventional and the original, and the acceptable and the challenging. (As Provided).
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