ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LANGUAGE AND EDUCATION This is one of eight volumes of the Encyclopedia of Language and Educa tion published by Kluwer Academic. The publication of this work signals the maturity of the field of 'language and education' as an international and interdisciplinary field of significance and cohesion. These volumes confirm that 'language and education' is much more than the preserve of any single discipline. In designing these volumes, we have tried to recog nise the diversity of the field in our selection of contributors and in our choice of topics. The contributors come from...
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LANGUAGE AND EDUCATION This is one of eight volumes of the Encyclopedia of Language and Educa tion published by Kluwer Academic. The p...
Biliteracy - the use of two or more languages in and around writing- is an inescapable feature of lives and schools worldwide, yet one which most educational policy and practice continue blithely to ignore. The continua of biliteracy featured in the present volume offers a comprehensive yet flexible model to guide educators, researchers, and policy-makers in designing, carrying out, and evaluating educational programs for the development of bilingual and multilingual learners, each program adapted to its own specific context, media, and contents.
Biliteracy - the use of two or more languages in and around writing- is an inescapable feature of lives and schools worldwide, yet one which most e...
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
Joshua Fishman is perhaps best known and loved for his pioneering and enduring work in language loyalty and reversing language shift. This volume b...
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...
This volume, Research Methods in Language, offers an overview of the wide range of methodological approaches to language and education across the axes...
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...
This volume surveys the research on discourse and education, adopting the broadest definition of discource . Discourse as talk-in-interaction, commonl...
The contributions in this volume acknowledge the centrality of the politics of language. They seek to highlight the importance of the social and political contexts of language policy and language education.
The contributions in this volume acknowledge the centrality of the politics of language. They seek to highlight the importance of the social and po...
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...
This volume presents the most recent theoretical, methodological, and pedagogical insights on foreign and second language learning and teaching in div...
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...
This volume, Research Methods in Language, offers an overview of the wide range of methodological approaches to language and education across the axes...
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 29 chapters in this volume offer insight in the various interdisciplinary approaches to the study of knowledge about language or language awarenes...
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...
This volume on Ecology of Language presents chapters on ecologies of language, literacy and learning. The subject of language ecology is diversity wit...
