[lg policy] bibitem: Linguistic capital: Continuity and change in educational language policies for ethnic Koreans in China and South Asians in Hong Kong

[Harold Schiffman]

Linguistic capital: Continuity and change in educational language
policies for ethnic Koreans in China and South Asians in Hong Kong

Gao Fang

Immigrants’ participation in every aspect of the receiving societies requires
knowledge of relevant local languages. Non-Chinese ethnic groups in China and
Hong Kong face challenges in reaching adequate Chinese-language proficiency.
This presentation looks at pre- and post-market economy language policies
in education in China, and colonial and post-colonial language
policies in education
in Hong Kong. It sheds light on continuity and change of linguistic capital
for groups of ethnic Koreans and South Asians.
Noting elements of complexity, contextuality, complicity, complementarity
and continuity, the presentation highlights the formation of an
ambiguous bilingual
education among ethnic Koreans alongside the emergence of an instrumentally
functional language – Korean – in cross-border commerce. It also
notes the shift of language policy in postcolonial Hong Kong from
diglossic bilingualism
to ‘bi-literacy and trilingualism’. This policy shift has inadvertently
impacted on South Asians, whose heritage cultures and languages are not
prominently endorsed, and whose limited mastery of Chinese obstructs academic
advancement and upward social mobility.

https://www.hku.hk/cerc/Seminars/CERC-CREC-Seminar-Gao.pdf


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