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Literacy in South America

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Nancy H. Hornberger
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Literacy in South America must be understood against the backdrop of the linguistic diversity there. Of the fourteen nations and territories of South America, only Uruguay and the Falkland Islands are monolingual, in Spanish and English respectively. Every other country encompasses from 7 to 200 languages within its borders.

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Annual Review of Applied Linguistics , Volume 12 , March 1991 , pp. 190 - 215
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1991

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