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Exploring Bilingualism in a Monolingual School System: Insights from Turkish and Native Students from Belgian Schools
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Agirdag, Orhan – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2010
A growing body of empirical studies indicates the educational benefits of bilingualism. Despite this tendency, bilingual minority students are being pressured by school authorities to shed their mother tongues. We conducted qualitative interviews with Turkish-bilingual and native-monolingual students in Flemish (Belgium) secondary schools to…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Second Language Learning, Educational Benefits, Monolingualism