Equality and inequality of opportunity in education: Chinese emergent bilingual children in the English mainstream classroom

Language, Culture and Curriculum

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 36-51

  Chen, Yangguang ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Fujian Teachers University   (China)

Author keywords

Inclusion; Language; Mainstream; Newcomers; Policy; Support

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947688083     PISSN: 07908318     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2167/lcc325.0     Document Type: Article

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