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Publication details [#51542]

Cruickshank, Ken and Linda Tsung. 2009. Mother tongue and bilingual minority education in China. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 12 (5) : 549–563.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingual education | language policy | minority language | school

Language as a subject

Chinese

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This paper discusses Chinese governmental plans to merge all minority mother tongue schools in China with Chinese schools by the end of 2008, but analysis of mixed bilingual schooling in China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region reveals how this schooling type doesn't solve minority ethnic children's problem of low educational achievement.