SpringerBriefs in Education A Study of Macao Tertiary Students Attitudes Towards Language After the Handover - Xi Yan Kartoniert (TB)

This book focuses on the attitudes of Macao tertiary students toward language after the handover. It shares the findings of a questionnaire survey and semi-structured interviews which were conducted among freshmen of the University of Macao to investigate their attitudes toward Cantonese Putonghua English and Portuguese as well as their attitudes toward Macao's language planning and language policy. Utilizing a multidimensional and multilayered perspective in the study this book also demonstrates the orientations of Macao tertiary students and the correlation between their social categor ies (gender and social class) and their attitudes toward language.