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Publication details [#58916]

Trudell, Barbara and Benjamin Piper. 2014. Whatever the law says: language policy implementation and early-grade literacy achievement in Kenya. Current Issues in Language Planning 15 (1) : 4–21.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

classroom conversation | language policy | language use | literacy | primary school

Language as a subject

Languages, Kenyan

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This paper examines the link between Kenyan and Ugandan primary classroom language policy implementation and students' early literacy achievement. It shows that language policy execution choices in the multi-language primary classroom can considerably challenge efficient education.