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Publication details [#27064]

McGroarty, Mary E., Ann Beck and Frances A. Butler. 1995. Policy issues in assessing indigenous languages: A Navajo case. Applied Linguistics 16 (3) : 323–343.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

assessment | education | language politics | native speaker | testing

Language as a subject

English, American | Navajo

Place, Publisher

Oxford University Press

ISBN

0142-6001

Journal WWW

http://www3.oup.co.uk/applij/contents/

Annotation

This article discusses the development of a Navajo comprehension test for children, focusing on similarities and differences in comparison with the typical top-down test model.