18.3888, Qs: Diaglossia

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Subject: 18.3888, Qs: Diaglossia

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Date: 28-Dec-2007
From: John Myhill < john at research.haifa.ac.il >
Subject: Diaglossia

 

	
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Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2007 10:43:38
From: John Myhill [john at research.haifa.ac.il]
Subject: Diaglossia
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I am supposed to give a position paper at a symposium on Chi. Would any of
you be able to give me references to studies of the difficulties which
children encounter in learning to read and write in a diglossic situation?
The particular situations I'm interested in (for the purposes of the
symposium--I know that not everyone considers these all to be diglossia) are:
 
Arabic in Arabic-speaking countries, Indonesian in Indonesia, Sinhala in
Sri Lanka, Urdu in Pakistan, German in Switzerland, English or French in
any country in which a creole related to these languages is the normal
spoken language, e.g. in the Caribbean. 

Please send any references to john at research.haifa.ac.il.

Thanks very much,

John Myhill 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics





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