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LINGUISTIC ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN SINO-AFRICAN STUDENT MOBILITY IBD

WEN XU
PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
06 / 2024
9789819721740
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Sinopsis

This book explores African international studentsâÇÖ lived experience within Chinese higher education, including their language ideologies, investment in Chinese language learning and the (re)shaping of identities and aspirations. Whilst high English proficiency has been sought by globally mobile students to play the âÇÖclass gameâÇÖ and gain entrée to the circle of elites, considerably less attention has been paid to how shifting global structures and ChinaâÇÖs semi-peripheral position shape its language learnersâÇÖ investment and identity construction. Drawing upon a series of interviews, the book deciphers African studentsâÇÖ logics of linguistic exchanges within the geopolitical and geo-economic context of China-African relations. The students invested heavily into Chinese language learning and use, while displaying perfectionism, linguistic entrepreneurship and linguistic insecurity. As the value of their Chinese linguistic capital increases, they reassessed their sense of themselves and produced different social identities, which includes the idea of âÇÖthe world is my oysterâÇÖ, contributing to AfricaâÇÖs sustainable development and the disposition to âÇÖtell ChinaâÇÖs story wellâÇÖ. This work transgresses monolingual dominance (i.e. English) in the existing body of international student mobility and second language acquisition (SLA) research, as great importance is assigned to Chinese as linguistic capital in South-South student migration. The book is of interest to researchers in international higher education, international student mobilities, sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, languages education, and Chinese language teaching and learning.á