How do educators balance the rights of the rapidly growing percentage of the United States' population whose first language is not English or whose English differs from standard usage with the rights of the majority of students whose first and generally only language is English? This two-volume set addresses the complicated and divisive issues at the heart of the debate over language diversity and the English Only movement in the U.S. public education. Blending social, political, and legal analyses of the ideologies of language with perspectives on the impact of the English Only movement on...
How do educators balance the rights of the rapidly growing percentage of the United States' population whose first language is not English or whose En...
This study looks at the history and policy behind the Official English Movement, looking at the changing US policies in the 1990s, the US language shift, how the courts and legislatures suppress languages other than English, biligual indivduals and the consquences of the English Only Movement.
This study looks at the history and policy behind the Official English Movement, looking at the changing US policies in the 1990s, the US language shi...
