Language Differences and Educational Failure. University of Sussex Education Area Occasional Paper 3 [microform] / Barry Cooper.

This paper is primarily concerned with Basil Bernstein's sociolinguistic account of school failure. The first section describes some earlier work relevant to his theories. In the second section, Bernstein's sociolinguistic codes thesis is described, and an attempt is made to show that it s...

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Main Author: Cooper, Barry
Corporate Author: University of Sussex
Format: Microfilm Book
Language:English
Published: [S.l.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1975.
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