Sociolinguistics and Language Education

Nancy H. Hornberger is Professor of Education and Director of Educational Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. Recent three-time Fulbright Senior Specialist, to Paraguay, New Zealand, and South Africa respectively, Hornberger teaches, lectures, and advises on multilingualism and education throughout the world and has authored or edited over two dozen books, including most recently Can Schools Save Indigenous Languages? Policy and Practice on Four Continents (Palgrave Macmillan 2008), and the ten-volume Encyclopedia of Language and Education (Springer 2008).Sandra McKay is Professor Emeritus of English at San Francisco State University. Her books include Teaching English as an International Language: Rethinking Goals and Approaches (2002, OUP) and Sociolinguistics and Language Teaching (edited with Nancy Hornberger, 1996, CUP). Her newest book is International English in its Sociolinguistic Contexts: Towards a Socially Sensitive Pedagogy (with Wendy Bokhorst-Heng, 2008, Frances Taylor). She has received Fulbright Grants, academic specialists awards and worked extensively in international teacher education in Asia, Africa, South America and Europe.

• Introduction: Sociolinguistics and Language Education - Nancy H. Hornberger and Sandra Lee McKayLANGUAGE AND IDEOLOGYLanguage and Ideologies - Mary E. McGroartyLanguage, Power and Pedagogies - Hilary JanksNationalism, Identity and Popular Culture - Alastair PennycookLANGUAGE AND SOCIETYEnglish as an International Language - Sandra Lee McKayMultilingualism and Codeswitching in Education - Nkonko M. KamwangamaluLanguage Policy and Planning - Joseph Lo BiancoLANGUAGE AND VARIATIONStyle and Styling - Jürgen JaspersCritical Language Awareness - H. Samy AlimPidgins and Creoles - Jeff SiegelLANGUAGE AND LITERACYCross-cultural Perspectives on Writing: Contrastive Rhetoric - Ryuko KubotaSociolinguistics, Language Teaching and New Literacy Studies - Brian Street and Constant LeungMultimodal Literacy in Language Classrooms - Viniti Vaish and Phillip A. TowndrowLANGUAGE AND IDENTITYLanguage and Identity - Bonny NortonGender Identities in Language Education - Christina HigginsLanguage and Ethnicity - Angela ReyesLanguage Socialization - Patricia A. DuffLANGUAGE AND INTERACTIONLanguage and Culture - Gabriele Kasper and Makoto OmoriConversation Analysis - Jack SidnellClassroom Discourse Analysis: A Focus on Communicative Repertoires - Betsy RymesLANGUAGE AND EDUCATIONLanguage and Education: A Limpopo Lens - Nancy H. Hornberger

The very size and richness of this volume makes it ideal for multiple shorter self-designed explorations. So each reader can enter through the chapter of greatest interest at the moment (for me the first time, it was "Language Policy and Planning" in the Language and Society section). Then follow your own links to Language and Ideology, Variation, Literacy, Identity, and Interaction. It belongs in all our personal libraries.