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ERIC Number: EJ408874
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1989
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An Ethnographic Study of Students' Oral Performance in the Mixed Francophone-Anglophone University Classroom.
Tomlinson, Timothy
Canadian Journal of Higher Education, v19 n3 p53-71 1989
Examination of the relationship between students' use of French and English in five classes at a bilingual university and their access to subject-matter knowledge and social networks found language brokerage to be an important process in two classes. The process of language brokerage, related research, and policy implications are discussed. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethnography, Heterogeneous Grouping, Higher Education, Language Proficiency, Language Research, Language Role, Oral Language
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Francophone Education (Canada); Language Brokers; Thorndale College (Canada)