Multi-ethnic Literature in the Classroom: Whose Standards?.

Tawake, Sandra Kiser

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ERIC Number: EJ445927

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Publication Date: 1991

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Multi-ethnic Literature in the Classroom: Whose Standards?

Tawake, Sandra Kiser

World Englishes, v10 n3 p335-40 Win 1991

Presents a comprehensive study of a select set of conversational texts to establish the following: (1) the texts are Indian in formal linguistic terms, (2) there are discoursal markers (interactional features) that are Indian or are, at least, "nativized" in Indian English. (seven references) (GLR)

Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), Ethnography, Foreign Countries, Linguistic Borrowing, Literature

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers; Information Analyses

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: India

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