This text describes a particular type of educational provision referred to as "elite" or "prestigious" bilingual education, which caters mainly for upwardly mobile, highly educated, higher socio-economic status learners of two or more internationally useful languages. The development of different ty[...]
This volume surveys the research on discourse and education, adopting the broadest definition of 'discource'. * Discourse as 'talk-in-interaction', commonly espoused in studies of classroom discourse since the 1970s. * Discourse as 'ways of understanding and constituting the social world', the criti[...]