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The Malta experience

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 October 2008

Keith Davidson
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Abstract

A discussion of the role of English in a unique Mediterranean island, in relation to Margie Berns's article ‘English in the European Union’ (ET43, Jul 95)

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English Today , Volume 12 , Issue 4 , October 1996, pp. 15 - 23
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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