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Languages and their role in educating Native children
Education Library, University of British Columbia

1980
Book
Creators
Burnaby, Barbara J.
Description
"Use of Canadian native languages in Ontario elementary schools in literacy, as a medium of instruction, or second language" -- Trove.

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Holding Library
Education Library, University of British Columbia
ISBN
0774450266
Statement of Responsibility
Barbara Burnaby.
Publication Information
Toronto : OISE Press
Physical Description
xi, 417 p. ; 28 cm.
Notes
Informal series (Ontario Institute for Studies in Education) ; 16.
Bibliography: pages 410-417.
Contents
I. Background information on Ontario's Native Peoples -- II. Historical background -- III. Objectives for Native education -- IV. Basic concepts and background issues -- V. Languages, school achievement and identity -- VI. Education and the characteristics of languages -- VII. Language as medium of instruction -- VIII. Language as subject of instruction, reading and literacy instruction -- IX. Teachers, teacher training and curriculum development... -- X. Summary and general conclusions.
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