Teaching Chinese to ethnic minority students in Hong Kong: A systematic review

Teaching Chinese to ethnic minority students in Hong Kong: A systematic review

• Wang, Danping The University of Auckland
• Tsung, Linda The University of Sydney

Chinese Journal of Applied Linguistics, 45(3), 375-393, 2022

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

2022

• G Curriculum, Teaching & Learning: Specific Disciplines
  • GA Chinese Language
• N Students & Student Services
  • NO Minorities & Immigrant Students

Ethnic Minority Decolonisation Chinese as a Second Language (CSL) Social Justice Systematic Review

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Unknown or Unspecified

This paper presents a systematic review of research on Chinese as a Second Language (CSL) education for ethnic minority students in Hong Kong SAR. Using three databases and screening with specific inclusion and exclusion criteria, the study selected 38 empirical studies published in English-language peer-reviewed journals. We find that there has been a surge of publications in Hong Kong in the past decade (2010–2020), and they are mostly authored by scholars from three universities in Hong Kong. Most of the research took a phenomenological approach, using interviews as the main data collection method and focusing on underprivileged South Asian students in secondary schools. The thematic analysis showed that Hong Kong’s CSL adopted a poststructuralist paradigm for understanding and revealing social inequalities surrounding Chinese language education for ethnic minority students. The study concludes that Hong Kong must decolonise its education system to genuinely support ethnic minority students to achieve educational equality and social justice. Copyright © 2022 Walter de Gruyter GmbH.

• English

Journal Articles

• 21929505

• 10.1515/CJAL-2022-0304

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/en/bibs/19a53257

2023-05-08