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Standard English and the EFL classroom

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 October 2008

Torkil Christensen
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Extract

A reply from a Danish-born teacher of English in Japan to Sir Randolph Quirk's ‘Language varieties and standard language’ (ET 21)

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Research Article
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English Today , Volume 8 , Issue 3 , July 1992 , pp. 11 - 15
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1992

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