The Path and Value of Improving the National Lingua Franca Ability of Ethnic Young and Middle-aged People in Rural Areas of Southern Xinjiang:A Case Study Based on K Village in Hotan City
The ethnic young and middle-aged farmers in southern Xinjiang are one of the most important groups for the popularization of national lingua franca.Taking this group as the research object,the article adopts the qualitative research method,and takes the case of K Village,Jiya Township,Hotan City as a study object,so as to investigate the path and value of ethnic young farmers learning the national lingua franca under the background of vigorous social and economic development in southern Xinjiang in recent years.The research found that the transformation of the work field,the continuous training,the adoption of new media and children's feedback education to their parents are the main ways for the young adults of rural ethnic people to learn the national lingua franca.This has brought the acquisition of information and technology,the increase of social cooperation,the improvement of social mobility and the expansion of social communication to the ethnic young and middle-aged farmers in southern Xinjiang.From the process of young and middle-aged farmers'learning the national lingua franca in K Village,we can find that language contact and learning motivation are the most important factors,and solving the issue of supply and demand is the key to promote the popularization of national lingua franca in rural areas of southern Xinjiang.This article proposes the path to increase the effective supply of national lingua franca from the macro,medium and micro levels,and suggests the basic path to stimulate the demand of national lingua franca learning from the subjective and objective aspects.
national lingua francasouthern Xinjiangrural areasethnic groupyoung and middle-aged farmers