Language Use, Attitudes, Performance and Sociolinguistic Background: A Study of English in Kenya, Tanzania, and Zambia

Schmied, Josef J.

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Language Use, Attitudes, Performance and Sociolinguistic Background

A Study of English in Kenya, Tanzania, and Zambia

Josef J. Schmied | Engl. Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Bayreuth, Postfach 101251, D-8580 Bayreuth

Published online: 1 January 1990

https://doi.org/10.1075/eww.11.2.04sch

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