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Reconsidering Compulsory English in Developing Countries in Asia: English in a Community of Northeast Thailand
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Draper, John – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2012
This article reviews the issue of compulsory English in the Asia-Pacific region and examines the English component of a single-site exploratory study of multilingualism in a disadvantaged ethnic minority (DEM) community of Northeast Thailand. The concept of ethnolinguistic vitality was used as a framework for an analysis of community language…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Language Enrichment, Second Language Learning