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Pijin at School in Solomon Islands: Language Ideologies and the Nation
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Jourdan, Christine – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2013
In this article, I analyze the reasons that have excluded Pijin, the lingua franca of Solomon Islands, South West Pacific, from being used as a medium of instruction, and why this may now become possible. Following a short sociolinguistic sketch, I present the colonial and post-colonial linguistic ideologies that shaped sociolinguistic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language of Instruction, Language Attitudes, Sociolinguistics