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Publication details [#48978]
Curdt-Christiansen, Xiao Lan. 2008. Reading the World Through Words: Cultural Themes in Heritage Chinese Language Textbooks. Language & Education 22 (2) : 95–113. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
Routledge
Journal WWW
Annotation
Drawing on textbooks from the Zhonguo Chinese heritage language school in Montreal, this paper examines the construction of power relationships between legitimate cultural knowledge in majority and minority settings and its impact on language minority students' literacy practices in the contexts of mainstream and heritage language schools.