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Smala, Simone; Paz, Jesus Bergas; Lingard, Bob – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2013
This paper argues that languages, increasingly marginalised in schools in English-speaking countries, are gaining "elitist" ground as part of the "value-added" marketisation of schools and parents' desire for their children to gain "positional goods" through schooling. In arguing our case, the paper draws on survey…
Descriptors: Cultural Capital, Immersion Programs, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning