Bilingualism, education and identity  

Oleh:

Edwards, John

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development vol. 9 no. 1-2 (1988), page 203-210.

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/JMM/9 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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What is the role of the school in supporting minority group identity, particularly through programmes of language maintenance? It is argued in this paper that schools acting in isolation can do little in this regard, although they can and should promote tolerance for cultural and linguistic diversity. The paper begins with a definition of ethnic identity, in which it is stressed that no single objective marker is necessary for the continuation of identity. Next, the relationship between language and group identity is discussed and, following this, I turn to consider education itself. While language shift is, in many circumstances, seen to have an inevitability which the school cannot hope to counter, it is also pointed out that identity can be maintained through periods of language shift.

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