Researchers working in multilingual contexts must draw on their own linguistic resources
when conceptualizing, planning, conducting, and reporting their studies, whether for theses …

This book investigates the social, political and educational role of community language
education in migratory contexts. It draws on an ethnographic study that investigates the …

User perceptions and experiences of complementary education are neglected in the
research literature, yet they are important in providing understanding concerning …

This study deals with teachers' language use as it is manifested in community-based
heritage-language classes. Specifically, it focuses on the functions of students' dominant …

Notions of culture, ethnicity and identity are highly political (and also personally meaningful)
issues within diasporic communities. Complementary schools are particularly interesting …

Chinese supplementary schools have been accused of having 'old‐fashioned'and
ineffective teaching methods, with most teaching being undertaken by 'unqualified'volunteer …

This paper examines diasporic language ecology based on a sociolinguistic study of a
Chinese complementary school (CCS) in Birmingham, England. The study applies a …

The high achievement of British Chinese students in the British education system is
established in the official literature and has recently been subject to increased attention and …

Educational entrepreneurship refers to the competence of educational entrepreneurs in
making changes and taking initiatives in vision-driven innovation and value creation …

This chapter employs Hornberger's Continua of Biliteracy as an analytical framework to
critically engage with the Chinese complementary school phenomena in Scotland. It begins …