Publications

Publication details [#39745]

Valdés, Guadalupe. 2004. Between Support and Marginalisation: The Development of Academic Language in Linguistic Minority Children. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 7 (2-3) : 102–132.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

academic language | bilingualism | minority child | minority language

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This paper argues that due to limited understandings of bilingualism and conflicting conceptualizations of the linguistic demands of academic interactions the segregation of linguistic minority children will persist even after they have attained a stable bilingual level.