EFL Education in Ethnic Minority Areas in Northwest China: An Investigational Study in Gansu Province

Bilingual Education in China: Practices, Policies and Concepts

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 240-255

  Jiang, Qiuxia ^a   Liu, Quanguo ^a   Quan, Xiaohui ^a   Ma, Caiqin ^b  

^a Northwest Normal University ^*  (China)

^b LANZHOU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

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