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Publication details [#54789]
Gkaintartzi, Anastasia. 2011. “She is a very good child but she doesn’t speak”: The invisibility of children's bilingualism and teacher ideology. Journal of Pragmatics 43 (2) : 588–601.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
Journal WWW
Annotation
This study explores the micro-level ideologies of four teachers and broader language ideologies in mainstream Greek schools, accommodating Albanian background children, regarding the children's bilingualism, linguistic diversity, second language learning and minority language maintenance. Teachers’ attitudes could be placed on a continuum ranging from awareness of the importance of bilingualism and minority language maintenance to its absolute rejection.