Publications

Publication details [#51529]

Wei, Li and Chao-Jung Wu. 2009. Polite Chinese children revisited: creativity and the use of codeswitching in the Chinese complementary school classroom. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 12 (2) : 193–211.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

classroom conversation | code-switching | creativity | discourse strategy | politeness

Language as a subject

Chinese | English

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This study explores Chinese-English bilingual children's codeswitching practices as symbolic, strategic and creative resources in complementary school classroom interaction, challenging the prevailing ideology of monolingualism .