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Language Conservation

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  • RUSSELL N. CAMPBELL
  • SUSAN SCHNELL

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Competencies in a large number of languages brought to our schools by representatives of linguistic minority groups are, through an unspoken policy of subtractive language education, irrevocably lost as national foreign language resources. This occurs in spite of repeated declarations of national leaders in commerce, defense, education, and international affairs that our foreign language resources are in a “scandalous†state. There are promising ways in which our schools can conserve the extraordinarily valuable language resources that are currently being squandered. A description of a model of two-way bilingual education is described that has the potential of providing opportunities for linguistic minority children to develop mature, adult literacy skills in their ancestral language.

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  • Russell N. Campbell & Susan Schnell, 1987. "Language Conservation," The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, , vol. 490(1), pages 177-185, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:anname:v:490:y:1987:i:1:p:177-185
    DOI: 10.1177/0002716287490001013
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