In the field of educational sociolinguistics there is a body of literature with a focus on children in complementary schooling. While timely, such work often does not often pay much attention to the parents who frequent the school setting, preferring to focus on the interactions between children. This paper addresses this absence by reporting on a…

In this dossier the focus is mainly on the Mongolian language in education in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (hereafter: Inner Mongolia). The Khalkha dialect, which is a dialect of the Mongolian language, is written with its Cyrillic script in Mongolia. In Inner Mongolia, people write with Hudum, a vertical Mongolian script that is also…