Young Children as Intercultural Mediators - Mandarin-Speaking Chinese Families in Britain

This ethnographic study presents a detailed depiction of family life in immigrant Chinese communities. Utilising a strongly contextualised and evidence-based narrative approach to exploring the nature of child cultural mediation, the author provides an insightful analysis of intercultural relationships between children and parents.

List of contents

Acknowledgments Preface Introduction 1. Migration and Acculturation 2. Understanding Childhood 3. Cultural Mediation 4. Child Mediators and Their Families 5. The Assimilative Level of Child Cultural Mediation 6. The Appropriative Level of Child Cultural Mediation 7. The Accommodative Level of Child Cultural Mediation 8. Demystifying Child Cultural Mediation Appendix: Methodological issues in ethnographic studies References

About the author

Zhiyan Guo is Senior Teaching Fellow in the Language Center at the University of Warwick, UK. Her research interests include intercultural communication, language acquisition, and language teaching and technology.

Summary

This ethnographic study presents a detailed depiction of family life in immigrant Chinese communities. Utilising a strongly contextualised and evidence-based narrative approach to exploring the nature of child cultural mediation, the author provides an insightful analysis of intercultural relationships between children and parents.

Product details

• Authors: Zhiyan Guo
• Publisher: Channel View Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.06.2014
• EAN: 9781783092130
• ISBN: 978-1-78309-213-0
• No. of pages: 216
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 210 mm x 17 mm
• Weight: 402 g
• Series: Languages for Intercultural Communication and Education; Languages for Intercultural Co; Languages for Intercultural Communication and Education; Languages for Intercultural Co
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories