Publications

Publication details [#53679]

Ferguson, Jenanne. 2010. Shwthn Dn, Shwthn Kwnj: good people, good words: creating a dn k' speech community in an elementary school. Current Issues in Language Planning 11 (2) : 152–172.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Routledge

Annotation

Using fieldwork data, collected in a Yukon (Canada) elementary school, this study investigates how both inside and outside classroom language teaching methods and practices serve as bottom-up means to challenge the school's English-dominant speech community, and to maintain indigenous dn k' speech.