Chinese Students: Perspectives on their social, cognitive, and linguistic investment in English medium interaction
Edited by Sophie Arkoudis and Chris Davison
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 18:1 (2008) 140 pp.
Chris Davison
List of John Benjamins publications for which Chris Davison plays a role.
Title
Subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Altaic languages | Communication Studies
Articles
2022 Korean Bibimbap mothers’ family language policies (FLPs) for their children’s bilingualism in Australia Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 45:3, pp. 272–298 | Article
The influential role of parents has long been acknowledged as a key contributor to children’s bilingual development. Parents’ home-based informal efforts to foster children’s bilingual abilities are described as family language policies (FLPs). The important connection between bilingualism and… read more
2019 Teaching in linguistically and culturally diverse secondary schools: How far have we come? Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 42:3, pp. 301–321 | Article
Thirty years ago Australian researchers led the development of language and content integration in schools, advocating systematic teaching of language across the curriculum to meet the needs of English as an additional language (EAL) students. However, despite significant improvements in initial… read more
2008 Chinese Students: Perspectives on their social, cognitive, and linguistic investment in English medium interaction Chinese Students: Perspectives on their social, cognitive, and linguistic investment in English medium interaction, Arkoudis, Sophie and Chris Davison (eds.), pp. 3–8 | Article
2002 Counting and dis-counting learner group variation: English language and literacy standards in Australia Maintaining and Setting Standards and Language Variation in the Asian Pacific Region, Tsui, Amy B.M. (ed.), pp. 77–94 | Article
Australia is a multilingual multicultural country with an impressive record of educational provision for students from language other than English (LOTE) backgrounds. The recent widespread development of common standards and benchmarks in English language and literacy in schools can be seen as a… read more