Anne-Marie de Mejía

Power, Prestige and Bilingualism (eBook, PDF)

International Perspectives on Elite Bilingual Education

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book describes a particular type of educational provision referred to as 'elite' or 'prestigious' bilingual education, which caters mainly for upwardly mobile, highly educated, higher socio-economic status learners of two or more internationally useful languages. The development of different types of elite bilingual or multilingual educational provision is discussed and an argument is made for the need to study bilingual education in majority as well as in minority contexts.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Multilingual Matters
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juli 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781853595929
• Artikelnr.: 50217302

Autorenporträt

Anne-Marie de Mejía works in the Linguistics Department of the School of Language Sciences at Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia where she is currently co-ordinator of the Bilingualism Research Group. She obtained her Ph.D in Linguistics from Lancaster University (U.K.) in 1994. Her research interests include bilingual classroom interaction, the construction of bilingual curricula and processes of empowerment, and bilingual teacher development.