Critical Perspectives of the Language Gap

ISBN-13: 9781138498235 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 90 str.

Eric Johnson

Opis

The contributing authors in this book contest the original concept of a "language-gap" as well as the recent swell of academic research and public programs that it has produced.　 The chapters interrogate the linguistic, academic, cultural, and social implications of the "language-gap" by providing critical accounts grounded in the scholarly disciplines of sociolinguistics, anthropology, and education.

This book was originally published as a special issue of International Multilingual Research Journal.

Spis treści

Introduction: Introducing the Language Gap  1. Exposing Gaps in/Between Discourses of Linguistic Deficits  2. Unseen WEIRD Assumptions: The So-Called Language Gap Discourse and Ideologies of Language, Childhood, and Learning   3. Meaning-Less Differences: Exposing Fallacies and Flaws in “The Word Gap” Hypothesis That Conceal a Dangerous “Language Trap” for Low-Income American Families and Their Children  4. Interrogating the Language Gap of Young Bilingual and Bidialectal Students  5. (Re)Categorizing Language-Minority Literacies in Restrictive Educational Contexts