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Publication details [#60240]

Fleming, Douglas. 2015. Citizenship and race in second-language education. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 36 (1) : 42–52.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

evaluation | language and culture | racism | second language acquisition | social norm

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This paper asserts that the normative Canadian citizenship standards described by the Canadian Language Benchmarks, -a central federal adult English as a second language evaluation document-, impose a singular dominant culture and have a racialising impact on second-language learners.