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Publication details [#49165]

Milani, Tommaso M. 2008. Language testing and citizenship: A language ideological debate in Sweden. Language in Society 37 (1) : 27–59.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

ideology | language | social status | testing

Language as a subject

Swedish

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper explores the explicit and implicit aspects of the 2002 Swedish language testing ideology of the Liberal Party, involving the introduction of a language test for naturalization. It is argued that such a test could actually add to, rather than challenge, social differentiation reproduction.