Publications

Publication details [#41601]

Suresh Canagarajah, A. 1997. Challenges in English Literacy for African-American and Lankan Tamil Learners: Towards a Pedagogical Paradigm for Bidialectal and Bilingual Minority Students. Language & Education 11 (1) : 15–37.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingual acquisition | dialect1 | literacy | minority language

Language as a subject

English | English, African American | Tamil, Lankan

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This article compares the challenges and responses in English literacy for African-American students, learning academic writing, and Lankan Tamil students, learning English for general purposes.