Preface

Chapters in this book

1. i-vi i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Foreword 1
5. Linguistic minorities and literacy 5
6. Minority languages and literacy 21
7. Consequences of initiating literacy in the second language 29
8. Literacy education for minorities: A case study from India 39
9. The problem of minority languages in the overall linguistic problems of our time 47
10. Linguistic minorities and language policy in Latin America: The case of Mexico 56
11. China’s minorities 63
12. The concept of language standardisation and its application to the Indonesian language 77
13. Linguistic minorities and national languages 99
14. Literacy and minorities: Divergent perceptions 115
15. Index 129