
This volume examines the political, social, and educational implications of acquiring literacy skills in more than one language. For educators, theoretical and applied linguists, socio- and psycho-linguists, sociologists, and anthropologists.


During the past decades, literacy has gradually become a major concern all over the world. Though there is a great diversity in both the distribution and degree of literacy in different countries, there has been an increasing awareness of the number of illiterates and the...

This volume examines the political, social, and educational implications of acquiring literacy skills in more than one language. For educators, theoretical and applied linguists, socio- and psycho-linguists, sociologists, and anthropologists.

