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Language Attitudes Toward Written Taiwanese.

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Chiung, Wi-vun Taiffalo – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2001

University students in Taiwan evaluated seven prepared Taibun reading samples on six characteristic scales. Results reveal that Han character-only orthography received the highest rating, Han-Roman mixed received the second highest, and Roman-only received the lowest.(Author/VWL)

Descriptors: Chinese, College Students, Foreign Countries, Higher Education

Issues in Ethiopian Language Policy and Education.

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Bloor, Thomas; Tamrat, Wondwosen – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1996

Addresses the issue of language planning in pluralist Ethiopia. Offers an evaluative appraisal of the new policy that considers a number of obstacles to implementation of the policy and questions the move towards the preference of the roman alphabet to the Ethiopic syllabic writing system. (33 references) (Author/CK)

Descriptors: Amharic, Arabic, Cultural Pluralism, English (Second Language)