Publications

Publication details [#64634]

Davis, Christina P. 2018. Muslims in Sri Lankan language politics: A study of Tamil- and English-medium education. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 2018 (253) : 125–148.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conflict | education | ethnolinguistics | language of instruction | language politics

Language as a subject

English | Tamil

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/IJSL/html

Annotation

This paper uses research at a multilingual government school to examine how Muslim teachers and students made sense of Tamil- and English-medium education in relation to ethnic, religious, and class discrepancies in Sri Lanka.