Publications

Publication details [#55038]

Cincotta-Segi, Angela Rose. 2011. ‘The big ones swallow the small ones’. Or do they? Language-in-education policy and ethnic minority education in the Lao PDR. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 32 (1) : 1–15.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

education | language choice | language of instruction | language policy | minority language

Language as a subject

Lao

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This ethnographic study discusses the seemingly inconsistent official discourses on language, ethnic minorities and education in Laos, and how these discourses are rendered, adjusted or challenged by teachers and students in ethnic minority classrooms.