[HERITAGE-LIST] Book announcement: CHINESE AS A HERITAGE LANGUAGE: FOSERING ROOTED WORLD CITIZENRY

[Scott G. McGINNIS]

Chinese as a Heritage Language: Fostering Rooted World Citizenry

ed. by Agnes Weiyun He; Yun Xiao

NFLRC Monographs
Distributed for the National Foreign Language Resource Center, University of Hawai‘i 

 

312 pp. April 2008

paper , ISBN 978-0-8248-3286-5,

The contributors examine the socio-cultural, cognitive-linguistic, and educational-institutional trajectories along which Chinese as a heritage language may be acquired, maintained, and developed. They draw on developmental psychology, functional linguistics, linguistic and cultural anthropology, discourse analysis, orthography analysis, reading research, second language acquisition, and bilingualism. The volume aims to lay a foundation for theories, models, and master scripts to be discussed, debated, and developed, and to stimulate research and enhance teaching both within and beyond Chinese language education. 

Contributors: Robert Bayley, Jin-huei Enya Dai, Gerda de Klerk, Patricia Duff, Agnes Weiyun He, Jason Hendryx, Gisela Jia, Ann M. Kelleher, Keiko Koda, Duanduan Li, Guofang Li, Li Jia, Mengying Li, LI Wei, Na Liu, Chan Lü, Xuehong Lu, Scott McGinnis, Tao Ming, Hongyin Tao, Yun Teng, Terrence G. Wiley, Chao-Jung Wu, Yun Xiao, Chin-Lung Yang, Ping Yang, Lihua Zhang, Yanhui Zhang.

Agnes Weiyun He is associate professor of applied linguistics and Asian studies at the State University of New York, Stony Brook. Yun Xiao is associate professor of Chinese and chair of the Modern Languages Department at Bryant University.