This article examines multilingual interactions in the complementary school classroom for ethnic Chinese children in the UK. Through a detailed analysis of classroom exchanges amongst the children and their teachers, the study aims to demonstrate how they alternate between different varieties of Chinese and English and different modes of…

Poses questions highlighting tensions needing management in the gendered practice of research. The article maintains that gender is one of the major social relations continually negotiated in social practices and affects the research questions asked, methods used, and data interpretation and implications. (six references) (CK)