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Publication details [#35675]

Leung, Constant and Charlotte Franson. 1989. The multilingual classroom: The case for minority language pupils. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 10 (6) : 431–472.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingualism | classroom conversation | minority language | multilingualism

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

ISBN

0143-4632

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This article addresses the differences between majority and minority second language learners in the English public schooling environment. Whilst the success of the former is often considered a case of prestigious bilingualism, that of the latter is not.