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Publication details [#33123]

Sefa Dei, George J. and Alireza Asgharzadeh. 2003. Language, Education and Development: Case Studies from the Southern Contexts. Language & Education 17 (6) : 421–449.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

colonialism | developing nation | education | language dominance

Language as a subject

English | Farsi

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

ISBN

0950-0782

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This paper examines whether English can function as 'the national tongue' of once-colonised multilingual, multicultural and multi-ethnic Southern countries such as Ghana and what psychological, educational and developmental implications this would have.