Publications

Publication details [#48952]

Lamb, David and Hywel Coleman. 2008. Literacy in English and the Transformation of Self and Society in Post-Soeharto Indonesia. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 11 (2) : 189–205.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

foreign language acquisition | language spread | language status | literacy

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This article demonstrates how young Indonesians' level of investment in English as a second/foreign language is not only constrained by personal agency but also by inequalities in the distribution of economic, social and cultural capital.