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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Mandarin-only policy"”.
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Listening to Teachers’ Voices: Exploring the U.S. Public School Mandarin Immersion Program Teachers’ Experiences and Beliefs
… 2011). Particularly, while the implementation of Mandarin Chinese immersion programs attracted educators and stakeholders’ interest, limited attention was paid to research studies on the Mandarin immersion program teachers’ lived experiences and teachers’ beliefs regarding program curriculum and …
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Performing Shakespeare in Contemporary Taiwan
… performances in contemporary Taiwan are not only a demonstration of hybridity of Westernisation but also Sinification influences. Since the 1945 Kuomintang (Chinese Nationalist Party, or KMT) takeover of Taiwan, the KMT’s one-party state has established Chinese identity over a Taiwan identity …
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Linguistic capital and linguistic selves of bilingual and multilingual taiwanese adults: motivation and identity rebuilding in learning Taiwanese heritage languages, Mandarin, English and other foreign languages
… and Taiwanese new immigrants. However, historic Mandarin-centric laws and policies detrimentally affected the identities and inheritance of local languages and cultures for almost four decades. This changed drastically, when Taiwan began to embrace two key emancipatory concepts after the …