Publications

Publication details [#54810]

Pérez-Milans, Miguel. 2011. Being a Chinese newcomer in Madrid compulsory education: Ideological constructions in language education practice. Journal of Pragmatics 43 (4) : 1005–1022.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

foreign language teaching | ideology | immigrant worker's child | language and culture | sociolinguistics

Language as a subject

Chinese | Spanish

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This article examines how Chinese immigrant students are institutionally constructed via everyday practice in a Madrid middle school, with particular attention to the Welcome Programme, intended for students from a migrant background to acquire Spanish before entering mainstream classes.