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Language and Education in Japan: Unequal Access to Bilingualism

Language and Education in Japan: Unequal Access to Bilingualism

Paperback

Series: Palgrave Studies in Minority Languages and Communities

Foreign Language GeneralLiterary CriticismLinguistics

ISBN10: 1349353248
ISBN13: 9781349353248
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Jan 1 2008
Pages: 206
Weight: 0.57
Height: 0.46 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
The first critical ethnography of bilingual education in Japan. Based on fieldwork at five different schools, this examines the role of schools in the unequal distribution of bilingualism as cultural capital. It argues that schooling gives children unequal access to bilingualism thus socializing them into different futures.

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