Publications

Publication details [#56851]

Ismail, Arfan. 2012. An evaluation of the monolingual fallacy in Oman. International Journal of Applied Linguistics 22 (2) : 143–159.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingual education | classroom conversation | foreign language teaching | language of instruction | language use

Language as a subject

Arabic | English

Place, Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell

Journal WWW

www.ingenta.com/journals/browse/bpl/ijal

Annotation

This study explores how students and teachers in an Oman higher education college, perceive the monolingual fallacy, -here defined as the need to teach a second language (L2) solely via that L2-, and the use of L1 Arabic in the L2 English language classroom.