Language Varieties and Educational Achievement of Indigenous Primary School Pupils.

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Academic Achievement; Dutch; Elementary Education; Elementary School Students; Family Characteristics; Foreign Countries; Indigenous Populations; Language Usage; Language Variation; Mathematics Tests; Standard Spoken Usage; Uncommonly Taught Languages

0790-8318

Explores relationships between standard language and arithmetic-test performance and a range of language-related family characteristics in the Netherlands. The sample consists of 7730 pupils from nearly 700 primary schools. The main question is whether pupils who use standard Dutch perform better than pupils from another language variety, such as a Dutch dialect or Frisian. (Author/VWL)

2000

EJ589675