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Ioannidou, Elena – Language and Education, 2009
This paper examines the tensions created in a Greek Cypriot primary classroom between the legitimate variety of the school, Standard Modern Greek, and the home variety of the students, the Greek Cypriot Dialect. Ethnographic data are presented to indicate that language use in the classroom, contrary to what language policy-makers argue, is…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Dialects, Language Usage, Ethnography