Research Methods in Language and Education: Encyclopedia of Language and Educationvolume 10

ISBN-13: 9789048194001 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 443 str.

Professor Nancy H. Hornberger; Kendall King

Opis

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."

Spis treści

General Editor’s Introduction / Nancy H. Hornberger Introduction to Volume 10: Research Methods in Language and Education / Kendall A. King Contributors Reviewers Section 1: Language, Society and Education 1. Theoretical and Historical Perspectives on Researching the Sociology of Language and Education / Joshua A. Fishman 2. Sociology of Language and Education: Empirical and Global Perspectives / Valerie S. Jakar and Ofra Inbar-Lourie 3. Investigating Language Education Policy / Bernard Spolsky 4. Researching Historical Perspectives on Language, Education and Ideology / Thomas Ricento 5. Survey Methods in Researching Language and Education / Colin Baker 6. Researching Language Loss and Revitalization / Leena Huss Section 2: Language Variation, Acquisition and Education 7. Variationist Approaches to Language and Education / Kirk Hazen 8. Second Language Acquisition Research Methods / Rebekha Abbuhl and Alison Mackey 9. Third Language Acquisition Research Methods / Cristina Sanz and Beatriz Lado 0. Research Perspectives on Bilingualism and Bilingual Education / Li Wei 11. Research Approaches to Narrative, Literacy, and Education / Gigliana Melzi and Margaret Caspe 12. Research Methods in the Study of Gender in Second/Foreign Language Education / Aneta Pavlenko Section 3: Language, Culture, Discourse and Education 13. Ethnography and Language Education / Kelleen Toohey 14. Researching Language Socialization / Paul B. Garrett 15. Discourse Analysis in Educational Research / Doris Warriner 16. Researching Developing Discourses and Competences in Immersion Classrooms / Anne-Marie de Mejía 17. Linguistic Ethnography / Angela Creese 18. Arts-based Approaches to Inquiry in Language Education / Misha Cahnmann Taylor Section 4: Language, Interaction and Education 19. Microethnography in the Classroom / Pedro M. Garcez 20. Code-switching in the Classroom: Research Paradigms and Approaches / Angel M.Y. Lin 21. Language Teacher Research Methods / Manka M. Varghese 22. Research Approaches to the Study of Literacy, Technology and Learning / Ilana Snyder 23. Researching Computer Mediated Communication in Education / Wan Fara Adlina Wan Mansor and Mohamad Hassan Zakaria Subject Index Name Index Cumulative Subject Index Cumulative Name Index Tables of Contents: Volumes 1–10

O autorze

Nancy H. Hornberger is Professor of Education and Director of Educational Linguistics at the Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania. Her interests include language planning and policy; bilingualism, bilingual education and biliteracy; and the ethnography of communication. Kendall King is associate professor of Educational Linguistics at the University of Minnesota. Her interests include ideological, interactional and policy aspects of second language learning and bilingualism.

Blurb

This volume, Research Methods in Language and Education, 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.