Demographic and sociopolitical predictors of American attitudes towards foreign language policy

Language Policy

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 421-442

  Robinson, John P ^a   Rivers, William P ^a   Brecht, Richard D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b Center for Advanced Study of Language   (United States)

Author keywords

Bilingual education; English only; Foreign language education; Policy attitudes; United States

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751174292     PISSN: 15684555     EISSN: 15731863     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10993-006-9033-4     Document Type: Article

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