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Publication details [#44083]

Blommaert, Jan, Lies Creve and Evita Willaert. 2006. On being declared illiterate: Language-ideological disqualification in Dutch classes for immigrants in Belgium. Language & Communication 26 (1) : 34–54.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

child | ideology | immigrant | literacy | writing

Language as a subject

Dutch

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/

Annotation

This article deals with literacy requirements in Dutch classes provided to newly immigrated children in Belgium. It is concluded that there is little or no permission for ‘hetero-graphy’, that is the use of literacy means in a non-normative way.