caa a22 4500 463241304 CHVBK 20180405153313.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170326e20070301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10993-006-9043-2 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10993-006-9043-2 Wang Shuhan C. Chinese Language Initiatives, Asia Society, 725 Park Avenue, 10021, New York, NY, USA aut Building Societal Capital: Chinese in the US [Elektronische Daten] [Shuhan C. Wang] ABSTRACT: Since the late 1980s, closely following the economic boom of the four tigers of Asia (Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Korea) Chinese language programs have begun to take a foothold in the educational system of the US (Rhodes and Lucinda, 1997; Welles, ADFL Bulletin 35 (2004) 2). The rapid rise of the PRC as an emerging superpower in the past decade commands unprecedented attention from the international communities (World Bank (2002). Globalization, Growth, and Poverty: A World Bank Policy Research Report. Oxford University Press; Friedman (2005) The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century. NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux). This desire to establish Chinese programs is clearly demonstrated from a 2004 College Board survey, in which 2,400 US high schools indicated that they would be interested in offering Chinese programs that lead students to take the Advanced Placement Course and Examination for college credits (College Board (2004) http://www.collegeboard.com/press/article/0,,51453,00.html). While the survey reveals a fascination with Chinese which presents an opportunity for future expansion, the inadequacy of the entire Chinese language teaching field in the U.S. in responding to this demand is simultaneously exposed. This article analyzes the Chinese case specifically from the perspective of the presence of HL speakers and links between the HL reality of Chinese and the demand for Chinese as a foreign language. The outlines of a new paradigm for language planning in the US using the Chinese case emerge from this discussion. Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2007 Chinese language education nationallicence heritage languages nationallicence language policy and planning nationallicence AYP : Annual Yearly Progress nationallicence CLASS-ES : Chinese Language Association of Secondary Schools and Elementary Schools nationallicence ELLs : English Language Learners nationallicence FLAP : Foreign Language Assistance Program nationallicence FL : Foreign Language nationallicence HL : Heritage Language nationallicence HKSAR : Hong Kong Special Administrative Region nationallicence HSK : Chinese Proficiency Test for Foreigners nationallicence LOTE : Languages other than English nationallicence NCLB : No Child Left Behind Act nationallicence NCACLS : National Council of Associations of Chinese Language Schools nationallicence NDEA : National Defense Education Act nationallicence Hanban : The Office of Chinese Language Council International (www. hanban.edu.cn) nationallicence NSEP : National Security Education Program nationallicence NFLC : National Foreign Language Center nationallicence NFLI : National Flagship Language Initiative nationallicence NSLI : National Security Language Initiative nationallicence PRC : People's Republic of China nationallicence US : United States of America nationallicence Language Policy Kluwer Academic Publishers 6/1(2007-03-01), 27-52 1568-4555 6:1<27 2007 6 10993 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10993-006-9043-2 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10993-006-9043-2 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Wang Shuhan C. Chinese Language Initiatives, Asia Society, 725 Park Avenue, 10021, New York, NY, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Language Policy Kluwer Academic Publishers 6/1(2007-03-01), 27-52 1568-4555 6:1<27 2007 6 10993 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer