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Qu, Weiguo – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2011
While we hold that cultural colonization in English teaching in the cross-cultural context is a legitimate concern, we argue that when overstretched it tends to ignore the complex power relations within a culture by imposing homogeneity on it. It may also fossilize the role a foreign language can play in a multilingual context, which, we believe,…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Language Role, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Schmidt-Mackey, Ilonka – 1971
The subject of language learning of children in bilingual families is considered in this paper. The author discusses practical problems and provides examples from his own family situation in which his children learned French, English, and German. The possibility of language mixture is discussed and the author presents some tentative conclusions…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Bilingualism, Children, Cognitive Processes