Medium of instruction policies : which agenda? whose agenda? /

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Imprint:Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Publishers, 2004.
Description:1 online resource (xi, 306 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11297220
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Other authors / contributors:Tollefson, James W.
Tsui, Amy.
ISBN:1410609324
9781410609328
9780805842777
0805842772
9780805842784
0805842780
0805842772
0805842780
1135632618
9781135632618
1282374788
9781282374782
9786612374784
6612374780
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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Summary:Medium of instruction policies in education have considerable impact not only on the school performance of students and the daily work of teachers, but also on various forms of social and economic (in)equality. In many multiethnic and multilingual countries, the choice of a language for the medium of instruction in state educational systems raises a fundamental and complex educational question: what combination of instruction in students' native language(s) and in a second language of wider communication will ensure that students gain both effective subject-content education, as.
Other form:Print version: Medium of instruction policies. Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Publishers, 2004 0805842772 0805842780