Beyond linguistic purism in language-in-education policy and practice: Exploring bilingual pedagogies in a Hong Kong science classroom

Language and Education

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 287-305

  Lin, Angel ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Bilingual education; Classroom discourse analysis; Codemixing and codeswitching; Language across content; Language policy and planning; Second language pedagogy

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746576137     PISSN: 09500782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2167/le643.0     Document Type: Article

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