Power, prestige, and bilingualism : international perspectives on elite bilingual education / Anne-Marie de Mejía.
"This text describes a particular type of educational provision referred to as "elite" or "prestigious" bilingual education, which caters mainly for upwardly mobile, highly educated, higher socio-economic status learners of two or more internationally useful languages. The d...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Buffalo, N.Y. :
Multilingual Matters,
©2002.
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| Series: | Bilingual education and bilingualism ;
35. |
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| Summary: | "This text describes a particular type of educational provision referred to as "elite" or "prestigious" bilingual education, which caters mainly for upwardly mobile, highly educated, higher socio-economic status learners of two or more internationally useful languages. The development of different types of elite bilingual or multilingual educational provision is disucssed and an argument made for the need to study bilingual education in majority as well as in minority contexts."--Jacket. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 325 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 304-318) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1853595926 9781853595929 9781853595912 1853595918 9781853595905 185359590X |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |