Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Bilingual Education

by Christina Bratt Paulston

This book is an anthology of articles on ethnic bilingualism and bilingual education from a primarily sociolinguistics perspective, i.e. anthropology and sociology are the major disciplines utilised in searching for an understanding of the phenomena of bilingual education while no methodological-pedagogical issues are considered. Bilingual education is seen as the result of societal factors rather than the cause of certain behaviours in children...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1853591475
• ISBN13: 9781853591471
• Release Date: April 1992
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited
• Length: 184 Pages