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Double standards

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 October 2008

Keith Davidson
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Abstract

A discussion of language standards, standard language, and examinations in terms of the National Curriculum for state schools in England and the tensions that have followed in its wake

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English Today , Volume 10 , Issue 2 , April 1994 , pp. 3 - 13
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1994

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