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Publication details [#65880]

Codó, Eva and Andrea Sunyol. 2019. ‘A plus for our students’: the construction of Mandarin Chinese as an elite language in an international school in Barcelona. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 40 (5) : 436–452.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
education | foreign language acquisition | institutional context | language spread | multilingualism | school | social class
Language as a subject
Chinese, Mandarin
Place, Publisher
Routledge
Journal WWW
www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This study explores Mandarin's institutionalisation in an elite school in Barcelona, rebranded as ‘international’ in 2008 due to stationary entry rates. Chinese has been very useful for the re-elitisation via multilingualisation/internationalisation and types the school ardor to always seek for novel distinction and academic eminence sources.