When a school principal does not believe in the impossible: from multilingual explorations to system-wide assessment
SOURCE: Multilingualism from below
OUTPUT TYPE: Chapter in Monograph
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2010
TITLE AUTHOR(S): K.Heugh
SOURCE EDITOR(S): P.Cuvelier, T.Du Plessis, M.Meeuwis, R.Vandekerckhove, V.Webb
KEYWORDS: LANGUAGE IN EDUCATION POLICY, MULTILINGUALISM
DEPARTMENT: Equitable Education and Economies (IED)
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 6767
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/3851
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/3851
OUTPUT TYPE: Chapter in Monograph
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2010
TITLE AUTHOR(S): K.Heugh
SOURCE EDITOR(S): P.Cuvelier, T.Du Plessis, M.Meeuwis, R.Vandekerckhove, V.Webb
KEYWORDS: LANGUAGE IN EDUCATION POLICY, MULTILINGUALISM
DEPARTMENT: Equitable Education and Economies (IED)
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 6767
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/3851
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/3851
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Abstract
This chapter traces a school-based intervention in language planning which informed the development of a system-wide assessment designed to accommodate students from three language backgrounds.-
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