Publications

Publication details [#51550]

Ioannidou, Elena. 2009. Using the 'improper' language in the classroom: the conflict between language use and legitimate varieties in education. Evidence from a Greek Cypriot classroom. Language & Education 23 (3) : 263–278.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

classroom conversation | language choice | language policy | language use | language variety

Language as a subject

Cypriot, Greek | Greek, Modern

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This article explores tensions between students' Standard Modern Greek or Greek Cypriot language choice and the classroom norms in Cypriot primary classrooms.