Challenges for Language Education and Policy

Making Space for People

Häftad, Engelska, 2014

AvBernard Spolsky,Ofra Inbar-Lourie,Michal Tannenbaum

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Addressing a wide range of issues in applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, and multilingualism, this volume focuses on language users, the ‘people.’ Making creative connections between existing scholarship in language policy and contemporary theory and research in other social sciences, authors from around the world offer new critical perspectives for analyzing language phenomena and language theories, suggesting new meeting points among language users and language policy makers, norms, and traditions in diverse cultural, geographical, and historical contexts. Identifying and expanding on previously neglected aspects of language studies, the book is inspired by the work of Elana Shohamy, whose critical view and innovative work on a broad spectrum of key topics in applied linguistics has influenced many scholars in the field to think “out of the box” and to reconsider some basic commonly held understandings, specifically with regard to the impact of language and languaging on individual language users rather than on the masses.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2014-07-14
Mått152 x 229 x 19 mm
Vikt476 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor352
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9780415711906

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Preface: Dear Elana, Bernard SpolskyIntroduction: A Portrait of the Researcher in a Never-Ending Journey, Ofra Inbar and Michal TannenbaumChapter 1: Language Tests for Residency and Citizenship and the Conferring of Individuality, Tim McNamara, Kamran Khan, and Kellie FrostChapter 2: Setting Standards for Multilingual Curricula to Teach and Test Foreign Languages, Bessie Dendrinos and Voula GotsouliaChapter 3: In the Name of the CEFR: Individuals and Standards, Monica BarniChapter 4: Acknowledging the Diversity of the Language Learner Population in Australia: Towards Context-Sensitive Language Standards, Catherine Anne ElderChapter 5: Students’ Voices: The Challenge of Measuring Speaking for Academic Contexts, Lindsay Brooks and Merrill SwainChapter 6: Ethical Codes and Responsibility, Alan DaviesChapter 7: Cultivating an Ecology of Multilingualism in Schools, Ofelia García and Kate MenkenChapter 8: English in Ethiopia: Making Space for the Individual in Language Policy, Elizabeth Lanza and Hirut WoldemariamChapter 9: Portraits of Language Activists in Indigenous Language Revitalization, Nancy H. HornbergerChapter 10: Refugees in Canada: On the Loss of Social Capital, Thomas RicentoChapter 11: Linguistic Landscapes Inside Multilingual Schools, Durk Gorter and Jasone CenozChapter 12: “We Are Not Really a Mixed City”— A De-Jure Bilingual Linguistic Landscape – The Case of Jewish-Arab Mixed Cities in Israel, Dafna Yitzhaki and Theodorus du PlessisChapter 13: Hebraization in the Palestinian Language Landscape in Israel, Muhammad AmaraChapter 14: Hebrew in the North American Linguistic Landscape: Materializing the Sacred, Sharon AvniChapter 15: Welcome: Synthetic Personalization and Commodification of Sociability in the Linguistic Landscape of Global Tourism, Adam JaworskiChapter 16: A Researcher’s Auto-Socioanalysis: Making Space for the Personal, Claire KramschChapter 17: Understanding the Holocaust: A Personal History, Critical Literacy Analysis of a Gestapo File, David I. HanauerChapter 18: Language Experience Changes Language and Cognitive Ability: Implications for Social Policy, Ellen BialystokChapter 19: Strategies for the Super-Multilingual in an Increasingly Global World, Andrew D. Cohen Chapter 20: Gender, Sexuality and Multilingualism in the Language Classroom, Lyn Wright Fogle and Kendall A. KingChapter 21: Examining Markers of Identity Construction in English Language Learning: Some Implications for Palestinian-Israeli and Jewish-Israeli Language Learners, Julia Schlam Salman, Elite Olshtain, and Zvi BekermanChapter 22: Integrational Linguistics and L2 Proficiency, James P. LantolfAbout the Contributors

“Valuable for specialists and general readers alike, this extraordinary collection illuminates the personal and social origins and implications of real-life language policies with a level of authority, insight, and specificity not found elsewhere. It connects language policies to the aspirations, benefits, challenges, and tensions experienced by language managers and learners around the world.”Mary McGroarty, Northern Arizona University, USA