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Publication details [#50140]

Kirkpatrick, Andy. 2007. Setting attainable and appropriate English language targets in multilingual settings: a case for Hong Kong. International Journal of Applied Linguistics 17 (3) : 376–391.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

classroom conversation | foreign language teaching | language policy | multilingualism

Language as a subject

Chinese | English

Place, Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell

Journal WWW

www.ingenta.com/journals/browse/bpl/ijal

Annotation

This paper examines the feasibility of using local bilingual English-Chinese models, instead of unattainable and irrelevant native English-speaker models, in Hong Kong schooling and in other comparable contexts.