South asian students' Chinese language learning in Hong Kong: Motivations and strategies

Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 285-297

  Shum, Mark S K ^a   Gao, Fang ^a   Tsung, Linda ^b   Ki, Wing Wah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Chinese language; Motivation; South asian; Strategy

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957545158     PISSN: 01434632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01434632.2010.539693     Document Type: Article

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