Language, Education, and Ideology : Mapping the Linguistic Landscape of U.S. Schools


TIMOTHY. REAGAN
Bok Engelsk 2002 · Electronic books.
Annen tittel
Utgitt
Santa Barbara : : ABC-CLIO, , 2002.
Omfang
1 online resource (212 p.)
Opplysninger
Description based upon print version of record.. - Contents; Preface; 1 Language and Power in School and Society: Cui bono?; 2 ""French isn't a real class"": The Marginalization of Foreign Language Education; 3 Failure As Success: Language and Ideology in U.S. Foreign Language Education; 4 Why Study Uzbek? Considering the Less Commonly Taught Languages; 5 My Language Is Better Than Yours: Language Bias and Language Variation in the Classroom; 6 Language and Multiculturalism: Coming to Grips with Diversity; 7 Delighting in Dead Languages: Critical Pedagogy and the Classics. - 8 Fallacies, Factoids, and Frustrations: Bilingual Education in the United States9 Language for Oppression, Language for Liberation: Language Policy as Applied Sociolinguistics; 10 Critical Language Awareness in the Curriculum; Bibliography; Index. - Language educators in general, and foreign language educators in particular, need to be aware of and sensitive to issues related to the interface and nexus of language, education, and ideology. This work places foreign language education in its social context, as well as applying critical pedagogy to the foreign language classroom, to help educators become more aware of the social, political, historical, and economic contexts in which they work and which effect the classroom setting.||Research and scholarship in critical pedagogy is impressive, extensive, and powerful, and has had significant
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Sjanger
Dewey
418
ISBN
0897897528

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