Publications

Publication details [#41543]

Lotherington, Heather. 1998. Trends and Tensions in Post-colonial Language Education in the South Pacific. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 1 (1) : 65–75.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingual education | colonialism | economics | language ecology

Language as a subject

Languages, Pacific

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This paper overviews trends and tensions in post-colonial language education across 11 small island states in the South Pacific and discusses the difficulties of regional implementation of bilingual education models.