By Li Yuming
Written by way of a number one student who has been heavily desirous about language making plans in China over many a long time, this selection of essays is a serious mirrored image of the paintings the chinese language executive and teachers have undertaken in developing applicable rules relating to language typical, language use and language schooling. The essays include designated insights into the considering at the back of a lot of the language making plans paintings in China at the present time.
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In societies inhabited by several nationalities, or when immigrants make up a large proportion of the population, mixed marriages often result in the formation of bilingual (including multilingual) families. As population movement becomes more intensified in many parts of the world, the amount of bilingual families is bound to increase. In bilingual families, the children are likely to attain bilingual proficiency naturally. The case of Elaine, a four-year-old girl living in Toronto of Canada, was reported by Guangming Daily on 21 June 2002.
The mother tongue of category A children is their native language. The mother tongue of category B children, according to the traditional explanations mentioned above, will then be their native language as well as the foreign language. This implication is obviously improper. For example the She children living in the villages of the four counties in the Guangdong province acquire both Chinese and the She language since their early age, while some of them only speak Chinese. But in the eyes of both the She nationality and the Chinese, the mother tongue of those She children is the She language and nothing else.
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