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Chapter 16 - English in Switzerland

from IV - Beyond Germany

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 November 2019

By
Simone Pfenninger  and
Richard Watts
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Raymond Hickey
Raymond Hickey
Affiliation:
Universität Duisburg–Essen
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Summary

The purpose of the present chapter is to investigate discourses on foreign language teaching and, in particular, the teaching of English in Switzerland, with a view to showing how these have come to play a significant, although inadvertent, socio-political role that potentially challenges Swiss national cohesion at the federal level.

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English in the German-Speaking World , pp. 315 - 333
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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