Huebner 1988

Huebner 1988

Reference
	Huebner, Thom. 1988. "Vernacular literacy, English as a language of wider communication, and language shift in American Samoa." Notes on Literacy. Interest level: lay specialist.

Summary
	Presents historical overview of language policy in American Samoa since the nineteenth century. Indicates the compatibility of mother tongue literacy to existing oral genre. Maintenance of local control of education made possible the success of mother tongue literacy during the nineteenth century.
	Introduction of English literacy in the twentieth century met with the opposite results, because literacy events were not under local control.

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Bibliography module: Huebner 1988
In overview module: Bibliography (Literacy): H
In modular book: Bibliography (Literacy), by Doris Gallemore, Trudi C. Hunt, Jeanne Swanson, and Stephen L. Walter
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In bookshelf: Literacy

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