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Language Teaching and Literacy in South Asia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 November 2008

S. N. Sridhar
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The complexity of South Asian multilingualism, the functional allocation of roles, and the policies governing the use of languages in spheres such as education, administration, and others have been discussed in Kachru's contribution to the present volume. The following discussion of the problems and research in language teaching and literacy should be read in that context.

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Language Teaching and Literacy
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Annual Review of Applied Linguistics , Volume 2 , March 1981 , pp. 219 - 238
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1981

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