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Multilingualism in England

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 October 2009

Ben Rampton ,
Roxy Harris  and
Constant Leung
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A great deal has happened in the study and understanding of multilingualism in England since it was last considered in ARAL (Reid 1985). To examine these changes, this review will concentrate on the dynamic and contested relationships among 1) educational policy, 2) academic discourse, and 3) everyday sociolinguistic practice. Our account is limited to England and to its newer heritage languages; due to limitations of space, it also does not provide any detailed discussion of particular languages. For fuller sociolinguistic discussion of thirty one of these, we refer the reader to Alladina and Edwards (1991), a major step forwards in the documentation of linguistic diversity in the British Isles which provides an idea of the wide but uneven spread of multilingualism across a range of institutional sites (including, for example, press and broadcasting as well as education).

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Annual Review of Applied Linguistics , Volume 17 , March 1997 , pp. 224 - 241
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1997

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