Publications

Publication details [#60522]

Caluwé, Johan De and Steven Delarue. 2015. Eliminating social inequality by reinforcing standard language ideology? Language policy for Dutch in Flemish schools. Current Issues in Language Planning 16 (1,2) : 8–25.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

education | immigrant | language policy | monolingualism | social inequality

Language as a subject

Dutch, Belgian, Standard

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

By proclaiming Standard Dutch as the only tolerable language and by negating all sorts of language diversity, Flemish language-in-education policy not only founders to produce equal chances, but also intensifies ideologies that support inequality.