Medium of instruction in Hong Kong universities: The mis-match between espoused theory and theory in use

Higher Education Policy

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 293-312

  Li, Natalia ^a   Leung, Doris Y P ^b   Kember, David ^b  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

English language; ESL; Language teaching; Medium of instruction

Indexed keywords

EID: 0043263043     PISSN: 09528733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0952-8733(01)00021-6     Document Type: Article

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