Publications

Publication details [#48965]

Locker McKee, Rachel. 2008. The Construction of Deaf Children as Marginal Bilinguals in the Mainstream. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 11 (5) : 519–540.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingualism | child | deafness | identity negotiation | pedagogy

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This paper discusses how to change the image of deaf children as marginal bilinguals in the mainstream school system and to accurately respond to deaf claims for a bilingual identity and pedagogy.