Comments on: Educating Burmese migrant students in China

By: MB24

MB24 — Fri, 10 Nov 2017 05:29:00 +0000

Congratulations Dr. Li Jia. Cross border language issues are a fascinating area and will no doubt continue to be an important area of study. The search for opportunities across borders no doubt comes with perils. It is such a rich area for research. Your focus on the everyday experiences of people in the border region has tremendous value for other such studies.

By: Kaniz Rahman

Kaniz Rahman — Thu, 26 Oct 2017 16:17:00 +0000

Congratulation Dr Li Jia! It’s interesting to see how you enjoyed living in the border and welcomed your neighbouring language. Your experience reflects in your paper and shows significant it was to learn chinese. Also how knowing a language can be more benificial than a university certificate. I have always lived in an area which is monolingual but coming to Australia makes me feel that how interesting it is to live in a cou ntry where people speak different languages. It makes me feel how it amazing was for you to grow up in an area which is bilingual and also can go to that country just like visiting the neighbourhood.

By: Dhanisa Kamila

Dhanisa Kamila — Wed, 11 Oct 2017 15:12:00 +0000

Hi Dr Li Jia! I really enjoyed reading your publication. It gave me deeper insights about people’s lives and society in the border areas of China- Myanmar. In my home country, Indonesia, people who are living in the border area also value the language of our neighbor countries such as Malaysia and Singapore. For those people who live in the border area, knowing their languages is considered important as it can raise their economy and job opportunities in such countries because rather than going to Indonesia’s capital, it is closer and cheaper for them to go to the countries across the border.

By: Eleonora Beolchi

Eleonora Beolchi — Sun, 01 Oct 2017 01:16:00 +0000

What an interesting publication Dr Li Jia! I am not very knowledgeable about the Asian languages and the exchanges and interactions among them but I surely enjoyed the reading and learnt a bit more about the cultures, life experiences and languages involved in your post. What I can say is that while reading about your research and the stories of these people, I kept thinking of the European context which is more familiar to me and recalled trips I made on border regions where I felt that same exchange which you describe between the Chinese and the Burmese border. The importance of knowing the language of the country across the border can raise your work aspirations and job opportunities. learning another language is such a resource that is always worth exploring because it may result useful in future experiences.
Elly