Publications

Publication details [#30659]

Arthur, Jo. 1996. Code switching and collusion: Classroom interaction in Botswana primary schools. Linguistics and Education 8 (1) : 17–33.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingual education | code-switching | language policy | language status | minority language

Language as a subject

Languages, Botswana

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0898-5898

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper on bilingual education, language status and code-switching in post-independence Botswana primary school classrooms, illuminates the collusion of teachers and pupils in mutual face-saving over the adequacy of their classroom interaction for the achievement of teaching and learning.