Language Diversity in the Classroom /

This book provides comprehensive coverage of language contact in classroom settings. A thorough analysis of the sources and implications of social "disadvantage" is presented first, since the nonstandard dialects that children bring with them to school - and the unfavourable perceptions of...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Edwards, John (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol ; Blue Ridge Summit : Multilingual Matters, [2009]
Colección:Bilingual Education & Bilingualism
Temas:
Children with social disabilities > Education > United States.
Education, Bilingual > United States.
English language > Study and teaching > United States > Foreign speakers.
Languages in contact > United States.
Teaching > Social aspects > United States.
EDUCATION / General.
Foreign Language Teaching.
Language Diversity.
bilingual education.
language education.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Chapter 1. Introduction
  • Chapter 2. Discourse Analysis and its Discontents
  • Chapter 3. Disadvantage: A Brief Overview
  • Chapter 4. Disadvantage: The Genetic Case
  • Chapter 5. Disadvantage: The Environmental Case
  • Chapter 6. The Language Debate
  • Chapter 7. The Persistence of Linguistic Deficit
  • Chapter 8. Evaluative Reactions to the Language of Disadvantage
  • Chapter 9. Black English as Ebonics
  • Chapter 10. 'Foreign' Languages in the Classroom
  • Chapter 11. Multiculturalism and Multicultural Education
  • Chapter 12. Bilingualism: A Very Brief Overview
  • Chapter 13. Bilingual Education
  • Chapter 14. A Concluding Statement
  • References
  • Index

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