Publications

Publication details [#51601]

Saravanan, Vanithamani, Seetha Lakshmi and Imelda S. Caleon. 2009. The Debate Over Literary Tamil Versus Standard Spoken Tamil: What Do Teachers Say? Journal of Language, Identity & Education 8 (4) : 221–235.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

diglossia | language attitude | language of art | teacher | written language

Language as a subject

Tamil

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

www.erlbaum.com/Journals/Electronic/electronic.htm

Annotation

This study explores (older and younger) teacher attitudes toward Standard Spoken Tamil and Literary Tamil as viable options for teaching Tamil in the classroom.