Complexities in describing and using standards in languages education in the school setting: Whose conceptions and values are at work?

Scarino, Angela

doi:10.1075/aral.23.2.01sca

Article published In: Defining Standards and Monitoring Progress in Learning Languages other than English
Guest-edited by Catherine Elder
[Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 23:2] 2000
► pp. 7–20

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Complexities in describing and using standards in languages education in the school setting

Whose conceptions and values are at work?

Angela Scarino | University of South Australia

Published online: 1 January 2000

https://doi.org/10.1075/aral.23.2.01sca

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