Exploring bilinguals' social use of language inside and out of the minority language classroom

Language and Education

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 89-108

  Thomas, Enlli Môn ^a   Roberts, Dylan Bryn ^a  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bilingual education; Language planning; Language use; Minority language; Minority language education; Welsh

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952780539     PISSN: 09500782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09500782.2010.544743     Document Type: Article

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