Differences in the Roles of Parents' and Guardians' Language Use in Rural Left-behind Pupils: Evidence from Hukou County in China

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10.2991/iccessh-19.2019.234How to use a DOI?

Keywords

left-behind children; language requirement; dialect inertia; language use

Abstract

This paper investigates the language use and its influencing factors of 465 rural left-behind pupils in Hukou County, Jiangxi Province in China, and uses Logit model to make an empirical analysis and obtains the following conclusions: first, parents' language requirements and guardians’ dialect inertia both have strong effects on children’s language use, but the former is positive and the latter is negative, and the two roles are in conflict; second, female pupils are more inclined to use Mandarin; the higher the education level of parents, the more left-behind children use Mandarin; in families where parents use Mandarin, children are also clearly inclined to use it. The main research revelation is that parents who work outside the county should maintain as much communication as possible with their guardians and children in Mandarin and require guardians to conduct Mandarin education for children to facilitate the popularization of Mandarin.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Jinfeng Li
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TI  - Differences in the Roles of Parents' and Guardians' Language Use in Rural Left-behind Pupils: Evidence from Hukou County in China
BT  - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Contemporary Education, Social Sciences and Humanities (ICCESSH 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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SN  - 2352-5398
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