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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
Language as a subject

Annotation

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