本文选取4位已就业的青海藏族学生作为研究对象,关注他们的语言教育选择与个人发展轨迹,将语言教育选择置于资本场域中,综合分析语言的社会资本、文化资本与经济资本特质。研究发现语言具有资本特征,语言教育选择策略是基于多种资本价值衡量与博弈的后果,占据不同资本优势的个体在教育流动与个人发展中较容易获得成功。
In the era of globalization, multilingual competence has become an invaluable asset for individuals, and the choice of language in education may exert lasting influence for students’ educational achievements and personal advancement. In this case study, four Tibetan students from Qinghai Province have been sampled and interviewed in order to reveal to what extent their language education in school has played a role in their personal development. The study sets itself in the field of educational choices as symbolic capital, and the analysis is framed within Bourdieu’s theory of capital, assuming that every language in the linguistic repertoire is empowered with different economic, social and cultural capitals. It is found that students with Tibetan-Chinese bilingual and bi-cultural competencies tend to be more successful in career than those who are versed in Tibetan only.As such, it is suggested that Chinese language education shall be enhanced in schools where ethnic minorities are populated.