What is it about?
This article reports on a research study that documented the languages on the physical signage and displays (the 'schoolscape') at all five schools of a rural school district in Oregon.
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Why is it important?
Schools are state-funded institutions that convey powerful messages about which languages have status in the community through their written and unwritten language policies. These messages tend to discourage the maintenance and promotion of minority languages that are important to the lives of parents and students and our country's multilingual resources.
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This page is a summary of: Agency and Policy: Who Controls the Linguistic Landscape of a School?, January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-39578-9_5.
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