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Publication details [#29210]

Mangubhai, Francis. 2002. Language-in-education policies in the South Pacific: Some possibilities for consideration. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 23 (5) : 490–511.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingual education | language policy | language status | language use | minority language

Language as a subject

English | French | Languages, South-East Asian

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

ISBN

0143-4632

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This paper discusses the relevance of some (existing) bilingual education models for primary school instruction in the South Pacific context as a springboard for focused discussion on South Pacific language-in-education policies for Fiji, Melanesia and Micronesia/Polynesia.