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Shaw N. Gynan
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During the transition from dictatorship to democracy, Paraguay developed a theoretically sound language plan for bilingual education. A pair of language attitude surveys were conducted at the early stage of this project and six years later. The results show significant change along a number of dimensions. Bilingual education and a positive language policy appear to have improved linguistic self-esteem, reduced purism, and contributed toward a more positive attitude toward Guaraní, the indigenous language still spoken by a majority of the population. These results point to the beneficial effects of bilingual education and a language policy that recognizes the legitimacy of all languages spoken in a country.
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Selected Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics
edited by Lotfi Sayahi and Maurice Westmoreland
Table of contents
ISBN 978-1-57473-405-8 library binding
vii + 132 pages
publication date: 2005
published by Cascadilla Proceedings Project, Somerville, MA, USA