Access to majority language and educational outcomes: South Asian background students in postcolonial Hong Kong

Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 17-32

  Tsung, Linda ^a   Zhang, Qunying ^b   Cruickshank, Ken ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

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EID: 79960628134     PISSN: 15595692     EISSN: 15595706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15595690903442256     Document Type: Article

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