Teaching Chinese, teaching in Chinese, and teaching the Chinese

Language Policy

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 95-117

  Liu, Guo Qiang ^a   Lo Bianco, Joseph ^b,c  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Administrative jurisdiction; Chinese language education; Diaspora populations and language maintenance; Higher education; Language policy and planning; Political sovereignty

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847665985     PISSN: 15684555     EISSN: 15731863     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10993-006-9041-4     Document Type: Article

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