Snow, Catherine E.2016-07-212016-07-212014Snow, C. E. (2014). Language, literacy, and the needs of the multilingual child. Perspectives in Education: Standards in education and training: the challenge, 32(1), 11-20.0258-2236 (print)2519-593X (online)http://hdl.handle.net/11660/3580In this article, I first take on the issue of standards and the degree to which they do or do not contribute to the improvement of language and literacy outcomes for children in multilingual societies. Then I consider the relation of standards to language and, finally, raise the vexed issue of content knowledge and its relation to standards, on the one hand, and to language, on the other.enStandardsAccountabilityLanguage developmentSecond language learnersArticleFaculty of Education, University of the Free State