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Publication details [#59119]

Henze, Rosemary C. and Fabio Oliveira Coelho. 2014. English for what? Rural Nicaraguan teachers’ local responses to national educational policy. Language Policy 13 (2) : 145–163.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

classroom conversation | education | language of instruction | language policy | teacher

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Springer

Annotation

This paper discusses how rural Nicaraguan teachers and NGO leaders cooperate with a US university team to elaborate a research-based, critical, locally winsome response to the Ministry of Education's claim for the use of English in secondary schools.