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Acknowledgements
Chapter One Necessity and Importance of Minority Language Preservation
1.1 Emergency of Language Conservation in the World
1.1.1 Statistics of Language Extinction
1.1.2 Examples of Language Extinction
1.2 Causes of Language Extinction
1.2.1 Language attitude
1.2.2 Power determined
1.2.3 Language shift
1.2.4 War
1.2.5 Television and School Teaching
Chapter Two Language Conservation in China
2.1 Emergency of Language Conservation in China
2.1.1 The Statistics of Language Extinction in China
2.1.2 Examples of Language Extinction in China
2.2 Linguistic Research and Efforts on Language Conservation
2.2.1 The Concept of Endangered Languages
2.2.2 Different Opinions towards Endangered Languages
2.3 Importance of Language Conservation
2.3.1 Children's School Achievement
2.3.2 Local Peace
2.3.3 Culture Preservation
2.3.4 Planetary Survival
2.3.5 Tests of Linguistic Theory
2.3.6 Other Disciplines Interests
Chapter Three An Investigation
3.1 Tibet and Tibetan Language
3.1.1 A Brief Introduction to the Tibetan Plateau
3.1.2 Three Main Dialect Groups of Tibetan Language
3.1.3 Tibetan Culture
3.2 A Local Survey of Language Usage at Batang
3.2.1 An Introduction of Batang and its People
3.2.2 Language Survey
3.2.3 Statistical Results
Chapter Four Analysis of Survey Results
4.1 The Families of Non-staff and Workers Are More Likely to Maintain Tibetan
4.2 The Children in the Tibetan Classes Show Better Acquisition of Tibetan than the Children from the Chinese Classes
4.3 Younger Children Perform Poorly in Tibetan Acquisition
4.4 The Promise of Learning Chinese Well Sacrifices the Children's Learning Written Tibetan Language
4.5 Purely Tibetan-spoken Families Decrease
4.6 School Strengthens Children's Chinese but Wakens Tibetan
4.7 Class Choices Affect Children's Language Choices after School and in Vacation Time
4.8 The Children in Tibetan Classes are Much More Satisfied with Their First Choice than Those in Chinese Classes
4.9 Chinese Has Taken Priority among Some Tibetan Children
Chapter Five Suggestions for Tibetan Conservation
5.1 Language Policies
5.1.1 The Concept of Language Policies
5.1.2 China's Language Policy
5.1.3 China's Language Policies towards Minority Languages
5.1.4 Improvements Needed
5.2 Family Attitude
5.3 Individual attitude
Chapter Six Conclusion
Bibliography
Appendixes 1 List of Abbreviations
Appendixes 2 The Questionnaire 巴塘县人民小学藏族学生藏语使用情况调查