中国における二言語教育と民族的アイデンティティの形成

民族文化共生の視点から

抄録

Bilingual education has been adopted in school education in order to carry outan equality policy for ethnic groups in China. There are two modes of bilingualeducation in China. One is using the ethnic language as a teaching language while Chinese is taught as a subject. The other is where Chinese is used as a teachinglanguage and the ethnic language is taught as a subject. Bilingual education has beenregarded as useful in promoting a common language and forming common culture, andalso helpful in maintaining ethnic language and culture. Does it really have such a keyrole? It is very interesting to study the function of bilingual education in formation ofethnic identities in China from the perspective of coexistence of multiethnic cultures.