"Straight for English": Using school language policy to resist multilingualism

English Teaching

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 73-90

  Dixon, Kerryn ^a   Peake, Kathleen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b Grayston Preparatory School

Author keywords

English hegemony; Language policy; Mother tongue education; Multilingualism; School language policy

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350409964     PISSN: 11758708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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