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Publication details [#51534]

MacKenzie, Pamela J. 2009. Mother tongue first multilingual education among the tribal communities in India. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 12 (4) : 369–385.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingual education | language of instruction | minority language | multicultural education | second language acquisition

Language as a subject

English | Languages, Indian

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This paper describes how several Indian states develop mother tongue first multilingual education programmes for their minority-language communities, using local languages and tribal contexts in an attempt to improve tribal students' school achievement levels.