Media representations of China's inclusive education: A corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis.
The Chinese government aspires for inclusive education to serve as an exemplary model in addressing educational inequity issues and establishing a responsible global image as a major power. Nevertheless, there has been limited focus on China's news media coverage concerning its inclusive educat...
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| author | Yating Yu Gaoqiang Lu Kuen Fung Sin Zhiying Yu |
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| description | The Chinese government aspires for inclusive education to serve as an exemplary model in addressing educational inequity issues and establishing a responsible global image as a major power. Nevertheless, there has been limited focus on China's news media coverage concerning its inclusive education initiatives aimed at international audiences. To bridge this gap, this study employed a corpus-assisted critical discourse analytic approach to examine China's self-image in relation to its inclusive education endeavours. Seventy-three English-language news articles from the official channel were retrieved for meticulous line-by-line concordance analysis. The results indicate that out of the 520 co-occurring instances, they can be broadly categorised into four groups: efforts to develop inclusive education (65.4%); consensus on benefits of inclusive education (24.5%); challenges faced by inclusive education (4.8%); and others (5.4%). This study illuminates the effective utilisation of official media in the image construction of inclusive education in China. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-3903e0a2c9c144e8ba88c4f5d8d148012025-01-03T01:54:59ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032024-01-01193e030012310.1371/journal.pone.0300123Media representations of China's inclusive education: A corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis.Yating YuGaoqiang LuKuen Fung SinZhiying YuThe Chinese government aspires for inclusive education to serve as an exemplary model in addressing educational inequity issues and establishing a responsible global image as a major power. Nevertheless, there has been limited focus on China's news media coverage concerning its inclusive education initiatives aimed at international audiences. To bridge this gap, this study employed a corpus-assisted critical discourse analytic approach to examine China's self-image in relation to its inclusive education endeavours. Seventy-three English-language news articles from the official channel were retrieved for meticulous line-by-line concordance analysis. The results indicate that out of the 520 co-occurring instances, they can be broadly categorised into four groups: efforts to develop inclusive education (65.4%); consensus on benefits of inclusive education (24.5%); challenges faced by inclusive education (4.8%); and others (5.4%). This study illuminates the effective utilisation of official media in the image construction of inclusive education in China.https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0300123&type=printable |
| spellingShingle | Yating Yu Gaoqiang Lu Kuen Fung Sin Zhiying Yu Media representations of China's inclusive education: A corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis. PLoS ONE |
| title | Media representations of China's inclusive education: A corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis. |
| title_full | Media representations of China's inclusive education: A corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis. |
| title_fullStr | Media representations of China's inclusive education: A corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Media representations of China's inclusive education: A corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis. |
| title_short | Media representations of China's inclusive education: A corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis. |
| title_sort | media representations of china s inclusive education a corpus assisted critical discourse analysis |
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