Playing with Nonsense: Toward Language Bridging in a Multilingual Classroom

To meet the academic and educational needs of first generation school-goers, the Government of India has launched mother tongue based multilingual education for tribal education under the national flagship program of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (Universal Elementary Education). In the current multilingual...

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Published in:	CLELEjournal
Main Author:	Urmishree Bedamatta
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	CLELEjournal 2013-05-01
Subjects:	multilingual education language bridging language awareness language play nonsense texts
Online Access:	http://clelejournal.org/article4/

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