Volume: 20  Number: 4  Page: 287–305  doi:10.2167/le643.0

Beyond Linguistic Purism in Language-in-education Policy and Practice: Exploring Bilingual Pedagogies in a Hong Kong Science Classroom

Angel Lin Faculty of Education, Chinese University of Hong Kong

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 education programmes to access dominant linguistic resources and discourses by capitalising on their indigenous linguistic and cultural resources.

Keywords: language policy and planning, classroom discourse analysis, bilingual education, codemixing and codeswitching, language across content, second language pedagogy

© 2006 A. Lin

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