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Publication details [#65154]

Phuntsog, Nawang. 2018. Tibetan/English code-switching practices in the Tibetan diaspora classrooms: perceptions of select 6th grade teachers. The International Journal of Multilingualism 15 (2) : 214–229.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

classroom conversation | code-switching | language of instruction | migration | teacher

Language as a subject

English | Tibetan

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

This study tried to discern aim and frequency with which 6th grade Tibetan teachers in Dharamsala, India (the seat of the Tibetan Diaspora), code-switch between English and Tibetan as media of instruction and their causes for acting so in distinct content areas.