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Direct linkLin, Angel – Language and Education, 2006
This paper proposes to overcome the traditional essentialist and dichotomous ways of conceptualising language and language pedagogies, i.e. to go beyond linguistic purist perspectives. Analysing bilingual teaching practices in a science lesson, the paper proposes that practical bilingual pedagogies can be developed to help students in bilingual…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language of Instruction, Educational Policy, Bilingual Education
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
Yip, Virginia; Matthews, Stephen – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2006
The notion of language dominance is often defined in terms of proficiency. We distinguish dominance, as a property of the bilingual mind and a concept of language knowledge, from proficiency, as a concept of language use. We discuss ways in which language dominance may be assessed, with a focus on measures of mean length of utterance (MLU).…
Descriptors: Language Dominance, Foreign Countries, Bilingualism, Language Proficiency
