Author(s)

Yang Yuan and Xiaole Zhao

Corresponding Author

Yang Yuan

Abstract

The significance and functions of the education in the mother tongue dialect to the growth of human should not be underestimated. However, in the current education system in China, what people accepts since childhood is the education in mandarin. To the university, only the students majoring in Chinese in some colleges and universities have the opportunity to contact the knowledge on the dialect, most people have not been educated in dialect. The serious absence of the education in dialect is the main cause of the ecological crisis of Chinese dialects. Teenagers are the main force carrying a dialect culture, which is also the special group of language users. How often they learn and use a dialect is crucial to its future development. Based on the investigation of the language use and education in dialect of the teenagers in the Jun Dialect area of Hainan Island, this paper analyzes the current situation of the development of Jun Dialect and puts forward the development direction of education in dialect in the future.

Keywords

Hainan Jun Dialect; Education for Teenagers; Chinese Dialect; Education in Dialect