The medium of instruction in hong kong revisited: Policy and practice in the reformed chinese and english streams

Research Papers in Education

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 287-309

  Evans, Stephen ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Bilingual education; Classroom discourse; Hong Kong; Language policy; Medium of instruction; Secondary education

Indexed keywords

EID: 85017090402     PISSN: 02671522     EISSN: 14701146     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02671520802172461     Document Type: Article

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