Language Policy in Taiwan in the 21st Century - Development from Monolingualism to Multilingualism

This book provides insiders' views of how Taiwan's monolingual language policy has evolved into multilingual language policies since its peaceful transition to a democratic society in the late 20th century. From three major perspectives, it examines the conflicts and compromises of monolingual and multilingual ideologies, challenges and approaches in language management, and actual language practice in families and communities in the transformation process in the last three decades. The book intends to theorize Taiwan's multilingual experience and introduce it to the international scholarly community, who are more familiar with the monolingual development on the other side of the Taiwan Strait and less aware of the multilingual development in Taiwan. It is an eye-opening book for language planning and policy students, language educators, public policymakers, and all those with a stake in multilingualism.

List of contents

Chapter One: From de facto to de jure?.- Chapter Two: Ethnic language vitality of Taiwan's indigenous peoples.- Chapter Three: Language education policy reforms in Taiwan.- Chapter Four: Language policy on Chinese as a second language in Taiwan.- Chapter Five: In pursuit of the bilingual label ... or something more?.- Chapter Six: Challenges of standardization in Taiwan indigenous language revitalization.- Chapter Seven: Swimming against the current: A multiple case study of Taiwanese family language policy.- Chapter Eight: Language policy for early childhood.- Chapter Nine: Language Acquisition Planning and Future Challenges in the Revitalization of the Hakka Language in Taiwan.- Chapter Ten: Language Policy and Language Empowerment of New Residents in Taiwan.

Product details

• Assisted by: Chen-Cheng Chun (Editor), Der-Hwa Victoria Rau (Editor), Victoria Rau (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 11.10.2025
• EAN: 9783031934896
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3193489-6
• No. of pages: 273
• Illustrations: X, 273 p. 9 illus., 6 illus. in color.
• Series: Language Policy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Spracherwerb, Zweisprachigkeit und Mehrsprachigkeit, Multilingualism, Language Policy and Planning, Language Acquisition and Development, Language Ideology, multilingual education, Monolingual Language Policy, Language Proficiency Testing, Multilingual Language Policy, Language Education Reform, Language Management, Language Policy in Taiwan