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Peer reviewedLin, Angel M. Y. – Linguistics and Education, 1996
Examines the historical and socioeconomic context of classroom code switching in Hong Kong. Empirical analyses of actual instances of classroom code switching reveal this action to be the teachers' and students' local pragmatic response to the symbolic domination of English. The article concludes with a cost-benefit analysis of the Hong Kong…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Cantonese, Class Activities, Classroom Communication
