Publications

Publication details [#60538]

Schneider, Cindy. 2015. Micro-level planning for a Papua New Guinean elementary school classroom: “copycat” planning and language ideologies. Current Issues in Language Planning 16 (3) : 335–354.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language of instruction | language planning | literacy, teaching of | primary school | vernacular

Language as a subject

English | Tok Pisin

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

In the early 1990s, Papua New Guinea (PNG)'s government officially revoked its English-only policy at primary school level, in favor of community languages. It is argued that in rural primary schools with hybrid linguistic populations, PNG's (northern) lingua franca, Tok Pisin, may indeed be a wiser option for incipient literacy teaching.