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Biliteracy - the use of two or more languages in and around writing
- is an inescapable feature of lives and schools worldwide, yet one
which many educational policies and practices continue to ignore.
The study of the continua of biliteracy in the present volume seeks
to offer a comprehensive yet flexible model to guide educators,
researchers and policy-makers in designing, carrying out and
evaluating educational programmes for the development of bilingual
and multilingual learners, each programme adapted to its own
specific context, media and contents.
The Contributions to the Sociology of Language series features
publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings
and applications. It addresses the study of language in society in
its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary
field in which various approaches - theoretical and empirical -
supplement and complement each other. The series invites the
attention of scholars interested in language in society from a
broad range of disciplines - anthropology, education, history,
linguistics, political science, and sociology. To discuss your book
idea or submit a proposal, please contact Natalie Fecher.
Richard Ruiz has inspired generations of scholars in language
planning and multilingual education with his unique orientations to
language as a problem, a right and a resource. This volume attests
to the far-reaching impact of his thinking and teaching, bringing
together a selection of his published and unpublished writings on
language planning orientations, bilingual and language minority
education, language threat and endangerment, voice and empowerment,
and even language fun, accompanied by contributions from colleagues
and former students reflecting and expanding on Ruiz'
ground-breaking work. This book will be of great interest to both
undergraduate and postgraduate students in language planning and
multilingual education, Indigenous and minority education, as well
as to junior and senior researchers in those fields.
Joshua Fishman is perhaps best known and loved for his pioneering
and enduring work in language loyalty and reversing language shift.
This volume brings together a selection of his recent writings on
these topics and some of his personal perspectives on the field of
sociolinguistics, along with an interview dialogue with the editors
in which Fishman reflects on his lifetime's work
The contribution of Jim Cummins to bilingualism and bilingual
education has been substantial and profound. This reader provides a
comprehensive compilation of his most important and influential
texts. The book also provides a detailed biographical introduction
and a commentary on the growth of ideas over three decades.
This book, addressed to experienced and novice language educators,
provides an up-to-date overview of sociolinguistics, reflecting
changes in the global situation and the continuing evolution of the
field and its relevance to language education around the world.
Topics covered include nationalism and popular culture, style and
identity, creole languages, critical language awareness, gender and
ethnicity, multimodal literacies, classroom discourse, and
ideologies and power. Whether considering the role of English as an
international language or innovative initiatives in Indigenous
language revitalization, in every context of the world
sociolinguistic perspectives highlight the fluid and flexible use
of language in communities and classrooms, and the importance of
teacher practices that open up spaces of awareness and acceptance
of --and access to--the widest possible communicative repertoire
for students.
This volume on Ecology of Language presents chapters on ecologies
of language , literacy and learning. The subject of language
ecology is diversity within socio-political settings where the
processes of language use create, reflect and challenge hierarchies
and hegemonies. The volume covers the following topics: Historical
and theoretical perspectives, language ecologies of selected
countries and regions, focus on Asia, Australia, Africa, language
ecologies of dispersed and diasporic communities, esp. Chinese,
Malay, Moroccan, classroom language ecologies in multilingual
contexts, language ecology of literacies, oracies and discourses.
This is one of ten volumes of the Encyclopedia of Language and
Education published by Springer. The Encyclopedia bears testimony
to the dynamism and evolution of the language and education field,
as it confronts the ever-burgeoning and irrepressible linguistic
diversity and ongoing pressures and expectations placed on
education around the world.
Language has too often been studied in isolation from the social
and political conditions in which it is used. The late David
Corson, the General Editor of the first edition of the Encyclopedia
of Language and Education, held the position that an acute
understanding of theory was a necessary prerequisite for action,
not an alternative to it, especially if one were hoping to change
policies for the better. The contributions in this volume
acknowledge the centrality of the politics of language,
highlighting the importance of the social and political contexts of
language policy and language education. This is one of ten volumes
of the Encyclopedia of Language and Education. The Encyclopedia
bears testimony to the dynamism and evolution of the language and
education field, as it confronts the ever-burgeoning and
irrepressible linguistic diversity and ongoing pressures and
expectations placed on education around the world.
This volume, Research Methods in Language, offers an overview of
the wide range of methodological approaches to language and
education across the axes of micro and macro-linguistic and social
levels of analysis, as well as the multiple connections between
them. The four sections each offer *Several reviews of different
broad areas or subfields *Articles with a more narrow focus or
demonstrating the application of an approach *International scope
*Diversity of scholarly perspectives The resultant breadth and
depth of theoretical and methodological research perspective makes
this a unique and highly valuable resource. This is one of ten
volumes of the Encyclopedia of Language and Education published by
Springer. The Encyclopedia bears testimony to the dynamism and
evolution of the language and education field, as it confronts the
ever-burgeoning and irrepressible linguistic diversity and ongoing
pressures and expectations placed on education around the world.
Literacy is the second volume of the Encyclopedia of Language and
Education, the first attempt to overview an area which has emerged
as a coherent and exciting field of study in the last two decades.
While forming part of a series of ten volumes, Literacy also stands
on its own, drawing on some state-of-the-art reviews of current
concerns in the study of literacy prepared by leading writers and
researchers. The book is organised in three main sections:
Literacies and Social Theory, Literacies and Social Institutions
and Living Literacies - Social and Cultural Experience. The
approach is multidisciplinary, drawing on insights from fields as
diverse as anthropology and computer science, sociolinguistics and
psychology. The international flavour of the volume is reflected
not only in the choice of contributors from nine different
countries but also in the emphasis throughout on the impact of
globalization on our understanding of literacy.
This volume presents the most recent theoretical, methodological,
and pedagogical insights on foreign and second language learning
and teaching in diverse educational settings and situations,
learner populations, proficiency levels and teaching practices.
Five thematic sections each include theoretical and practical
approaches to second and foreign language education: - Theoretical
underpinnings - Current approaches - International perspectives -
Teacher preparation and professional development - The role of
technology This is one of ten volumes of the Encyclopedia of
Language and Education published by Springer. The Encyclopedia
bears testimony to the dynamism and evolution of the language and
education field, as it confronts the ever-burgeoning and
irrepressible linguistic diversity and ongoing pressures and
expectations placed on education around the world.
The 29 chapters in this volume offer insight in the various
interdisciplinary approaches to the study of knowledge about
language or language awareness. They reflect the breadth of the
area and chart its possible development in topics such as:*
Language awareness in the mother tongue and second and foreign
languages* Studies aimed at improving the teaching of languages in
educational settings* Studies of Psycholinguistic processes,
explicit and implicit knowledge* Bilingualism and multilingualism,
in particular metalinguistic awareness* Critical language
awareness, social practices of language and the role of power and
ideology.This is one of ten volumes of the Encyclopedia of Language
and Education published by Springer. The Encyclopedia bears
testimony to the dynamism and evolution of the language and
education field, as it confronts the ever-burgeoning and
irrepressible linguistic diversity and ongoing pressures and
expectations placed on education around the world.
This volume, Research Methods in Language, offers an overview of
the wide range of methodological approaches to language and
education across the axes of micro and macro-linguistic and social
levels of analysis, as well as the multiple connections between
them. The four sections each offer *Several reviews of different
broad areas or subfields *Articles with a more narrow focus or
demonstrating the application of an approach *International scope
*Diversity of scholarly perspectives The resultant breadth and
depth of theoretical and methodological research perspective makes
this a unique and highly valuable resource. This is one of ten
volumes of the Encyclopedia of Language and Education published by
Springer. The Encyclopedia bears testimony to the dynamism and
evolution of the language and education field, as it confronts the
ever-burgeoning and irrepressible linguistic diversity and ongoing
pressures and expectations placed on education around the world.
This volume addresses bilingual education, the use of two (or more)
languages of instruction in education. Although bilingual education
is available in some form in most countries, it is frequently the
subject of political debate, especially where a bilingual program
is set up to serve migrant populations. The volume offers * a
thorough analysis of a range of conceptual issues in bilingual
education. * discussion of research in the field since the 1920s
and the conclusions that can be drawn from it. * chapters on
illustrative bilingual education programs and policies from around
the globe. This is one of ten volumes of the Encyclopedia of
Language and Education published by Springer. The Encyclopedia
bears testimony to the dynamism and evolution of the language and
education field, as it confronts the ever-burgeoning and
irrepressible linguistic diversity and ongoing pressures and
expectations placed on education around the world.
The present volume seeks to enable language and education
practitioners, researchers, and interested lay readers alike to get
a sense of the range of issues being pursued in language and
education research and the array of methods employed to do so. A
major assumption of the volume is that both micro and macro
perspectives and both social and linguistic levels of analysis are
critical for an understanding of the interaction between language
and education. It is organized in four parts, focusing in turn on
language and education in relation to society, variation, culture,
and interaction. The contributing scholars hail from five
continents and nine countries; they represent a great diversity of
linguistic, cultural, and disciplinary traditions. For all that,
what is most impressive about this volume is the unity of purpose
and outlook with regard to the central role of language as both
vehicle and mediator of educational processes and to the need for
continued and deepening research into the limits and possibilities
that implies.
What educational approaches best serve language-minority children?
What policies, programmes, and circumstances encourage or
contribute to minority-language maintenance? How do we make sense
of the ecology of language development and socialization in
non-traditional settings? And what is the relationship of language,
learning, and technology? These are the kinds of dizzying questions
addressed by those working in educational linguistics. The
subdiscipline first came to prominence in the 1970s, and in recent
decades it has expanded rapidly. It is now a well-established field
of teaching and scholarly research. As serious academic thinking
about and around educational linguistics continues to flourish and
develop, this new title in the Routledge Major Works series,
Critical Concepts in Linguistics, meets the need for an
authoritative reference work to make sense of the subject's vast
literature and the continuing explosion in research output. Edited
by Nancy H. Hornberger, Goldie Anna Professor of Education and
Director of the Educational Linguistics Program at the University
of Pennsylvania, USA, this Routledge Major Work is a six-volume
collection of foundational and cutting-edge contributions. With a
comprehensive introduction, newly written by the editor, which
places the collected material in its historical and intellectual
context, Educational Linguistics is an essential work of reference.
It is destined to be valued by specialists and scholars working in
the area-as well as by educational policy-makers and
professionals-as a vital one-stop research tool.
This book provides an introduction to the field of sociolinguistics for second and foreign language teachers. Chapters cover the basic areas of sociolinguistics that have a bearing on language teaching, including regional and social variations in dialects, language and gender, World Englishes, and intercultural communication. Each chapter has been specially written for this collection by an individual who has done extensive research on the topic explored. For each topic there is an overview of central terms and issues, and a discussion of implications for the language classroom. This is the first introductory text to address explicitly the pedagogical implications of current theory and research in sociolinguistics. The book will also be of interest to any teachers with students from linguistically diverse backgrounds.
This volume addresses the broad theme and specific topics
associated with current thinking in the field of language testing
and assessment. The volume offers *multiple perspectives on the
'what' (the 'trait') of languages, and the 'how' ('the method') of
assessment *multiple approaches developed for assessment especially
given the multiplicity of languages used by many diverse groups of
learners in many different contexts *focus on the societal roles of
language testers, their responsibility to be socially accountable
and to ensure ethicality and professionalism *focus on language
testing in multilingual and diverse contexts This is one of ten
volumes of the Encyclopedia of Language and Education published by
Springer. The Encyclopedia bears testimony to the dynamism and
evolution of the language and education field, as it confronts the
ever-burgeoning and irrepressible linguistic diversity and ongoing
pressures and expectations placed on education around the world.
This volume surveys the research on discourse and education,
adopting the broadest definition of 'discource'. * Discourse as
'talk-in-interaction', commonly espoused in studies of classroom
discourse since the 1970s. * Discourse as 'ways of understanding
and constituting the social world', the critical,
post-structuralist view of discourse as a source of power. Several
themes resonate across the four sections and the chapters within
them: * Widening the scope of enquiry, combining approaches to
discourse * Linking the study of discourse with ethnography *
Dealing with the changing nature of contemporary patterns of
communication This is one of ten volumes of the Encyclopedia of
Language and Education published by Springer. The Encyclopedia
bears testimony to the dynamism and evolution of the language and
education field, as it confronts the ever-burgeoning and
irrepressible linguistic diversity and ongoing pressures and
expectations placed on education around the world.
In 1997, the Encyclopedia of Language and Education was published
as an award-winning collection of eight volumes, under the general
editorship of David Corson. This reference set signaled the
maturity of language and education as an international and
interdisciplinary field of significance and cohesion. Now in a
second, fully revised edition, this 10 volume set of the
Encyclopedia of Language and Education brings forth the newest
developments in the field, including two new volumes of research
and scholarly content essential to the field of language teaching
and learning in the age of globalization. The publication of this
work charts the deepening and broadening of the field of language
and education since the publication of the first Encyclopedia In
the selection of topics and contributors, the Encyclopedia reflects
the depth of disciplinary knowledge, breadth of interdisciplinary
perspective, and diversity of sociogeographic experience in our
field. Volumes on language socialization and language ecology have
been added, reflecting these growing emphases in language education
theory, research and practice, alongside the enduring emphases on
language policy, literacies, discourse, language acquisition,
bilingual education, knowledge about language, language testing,
and research methods. Throughout all the volumes, there is a
greater inclusion of scholarly contributions from non-English
speaking and non-western parts of the world, providing truly global
coverage of the issues in the field. Furthermore, we have sought to
integrate these voices more fully into the whole, rather than as
special cases or international perspectives in separate sections.
The Encyclopedia isa necessary reference set for every university
and college library in the world that serves a faculty or school of
education. The Encyclopedia aims to speak to a prospective
readership that is multinational, and to do so as unambiguously as
possible. Because each book-size volume deals with a discrete and
important subject in language and education, these state-of-the-art
volumes also offer highly authoritative course textbooks in the
areas suggested by their titles. The more than 250 scholars
contributing to the Encyclopedia hail from all continents of our
globe and from 41 countries; they represent a great diversity of
linguistic, cultural, and disciplinary traditions. For all that,
what is most impressive about the contributions gathered here is
the unity of purpose and outlook they express with regard to the
central role of language as both vehicle and mediator of
educational processes and to the need for continued and deepening
research into the limits and possibilities that implies. Volume 1:
Language Policy and Political Issues in Education Stephen May and
Nancy H. Hornberger Volume 2: Literacy Brian Street and Nancy H.
Hornberger Volume 3: Discourse and Education Marilyn Martin-Jones,
Anne-Marie de Mejia, and Nancy H. Hornberger Volume 4: Second and
Foreign Language Education Nelleke Van Deusen-Scholl and Nancy H.
Hornberger Volume 5: Bilingual Education Jim Cummins and Nancy H.
Hornberger Volume 6: Knowledge About Language Jasone Cenoz and
Nancy H. Hornberger Volume 7: Language Testing and Assessment Elana
Shohamy and Nancy H. Hornberger Volume 8: Language Socialization
Patricia Duff andNancy H. Hornberger Volume 9: Ecology of Language
Angela Creese, Peter Martin, and Nancy H. Hornberger Volume 10:
Research Methods in Language and Education Kendall A. King and
Nancy H. Hornberger
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