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Shoba, Jo Arthur – Language and Education, 2010
Research in multilingual classrooms demonstrates education as a key site within which social and linguistic values are shaped. This study extends such research by investigating language use in a Scottish primary classroom. Scots is widely spoken throughout Scotland, figuring in a 2003 Scottish Parliament report as one of two indigenous heritage…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Foreign Countries, Indo European Languages, Teaching Methods
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Williamson, John; Hardman, Frank – Language and Education, 1997
Examines a wide range of writing tasks of 11- and 15-year-old students from four regions of England to establish the relative importance of nonstandard dialect as a factor in deviation from standard English norms in writing. (Author/JL)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Childrens Writing, Foreign Countries, Nonstandard Dialects