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Publication details [#2872]

Dumont, Robert V. 1972. Learning English and how to be silent: Studies in Sioux and Cherokee classrooms. In Cazden, Courtney B., Vera P. John and Dell H. Hymes, eds. Functions of language in the classroom. Teachers College Press. pp. 344–369.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

classroom conversation | foreign language acquisition | silence

Language as a subject

English, L2-acquisition of

Annotation

On how and why student silence characterizes much of what goes on in the formal schooling of American Indian children.