The socio-cultural settings of English-language and English-medium classrooms are intrinsically bi/multilingual and bi/multicultural as both learners and teachers bring their multiple identities and home-community languages and sociolinguistic practices into the classroom. However, more often than not in such contexts, monolingual ideologies are…

Analyzes classroom practice in Brunei and suggests alternative teaching strategies to enable teachers to more easily manipulate the classroom culture to achieve the objectives of the bilingual education system while maintaining class control. McLellan argues that in a multilingual situation, the lines between languages are fuzzy so extent that…