Language policies in practice: Preliminary findings from a large-scale national study of Native American language shift

TESOL Quarterly

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 607-618

  Romero Little, Mary Eunice ^a   McCarty, Teresa L ^a   Warhol, Larisa ^a   Zepeda, Ofelia ^b,c,d  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c Tohono O'odham Nation   (United States)

^d Tohono O'odham Nation ^*

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EID: 35549009748     PISSN: 00398322     EISSN: 15457249     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.1545-7249.2007.tb00093.x     Document Type: Article

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