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Linguistic Discrimination in Educational Contexts

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Abstract

Many nations provide a combination of public and/or private education for (some?) children who represent their future citizens, and many of these schools have classrooms of different sizes that also vary considerably in their linguistic composition. Some schools, or classes within schools, may be linguistically homogeneous — while other schools, or classes within them, may be dissimilar from a linguistic point of view.

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Baugh, J. (1997). Linguistic Discrimination in Educational Contexts. In: Wodak, R., Corson, D. (eds) Encyclopedia of Language and Education. Encyclopedia of Language and Education, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4538-1_4

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