Linguistic Entrepreneurship in Sino-African Student Mobility

by Wen Xu

This book explores African international students' 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 'class game' and gain entr e to the circle of elites, considerably less attention has been paid to how shifting global structures and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9819721741
• ISBN13: 9789819721740
• Release Date: June 2024
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"