Publications

Publication details [#20043]

Reagan, Tim and J. Vorster. 2000. Die Politiek van Vergetelheid: Stand van die Minder-algemeen-onderrigte Tale. [The politics of oblivion: The position of less commonly taught languages.] Language Problems and Language Planning 24 (1) : 55–76.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

Afrikaans

Keywords

foreign language teaching

Place, Publisher

John Benjamins

ISBN

0272-2690

Journal DOI

10.1075/lplp

Annotation

This article documents social, political, economical, cultural and ideological aspects of less commonly taught languages in United States curricula in order to draw a linguistic hierarchy and a 'social grammar'.