Hold Your Courses: Language Education, Language Choice, and Economic Development.

Bruthiaux, Paul

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Publication Date: 2002

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Hold Your Courses: Language Education, Language Choice, and Economic Development.

Bruthiaux, Paul

TESOL Quarterly, v36 n3 p275-96 Aut 2002

Argues that discussion of the role of English in development fails to recognize the success of narrowly focused community-based projects, in which basic first language literacy rather than English education is the goal. (Author/VWL)

Descriptors: Community Development, Developing Nations, Economic Development, English (Second Language), Language Role, Literacy Education, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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