Sociopolitics of English Language Teaching

Joan Kelly Hall is Professor of Applied Linguistics in the Department of Applied Linguistics at Pennsylvania State University.William G. Eggington is Professor of English Language and Linguistics and Associate Chair of the English Department at Brigham Young University, Utah.

• Robert B. Kaplan: ForewordIntroductionSection 1: Language Politics, Language Practices, and English Teaching1 James W. Tollefson: Policy and Ideology in the Spread of English2 Tove Skutnabb-Kangas: Linguistic Human Rights and Teachers of English3 Susan J. Dicker: Official English and Bilingual Education: The Controversy over Language Pluralism in US Society4 Peter H. Lowenberg: Non-Native Varieties and the Sociopolitics of English Proficiency AssessmentSection 2: The Social, Cultural, and Political Dimensions of Language Education 5 Alastair Pennycook: The Social Politics and the Cultural Politics of Language Classrooms6 John Baugh: Educational Malpractice and the Miseducation of Language Minority Students7 Shelley Wong: Transforming the Politics of Schooling in the U.S.: A Model for Successful Academic Achievement for Language Minority StudentsSection 3: Possibilities for Action8 Elsa R. Auerbach: Creating Participatory Learning Communities: Paradoxes and Possibilities9 Ramona M. Cutri: Exploring the Spiritual Moral Dimensions of Teachers' Classroom Language Policies10 William Grabe, Fredricka L. Stoller and Christine Tardy: Disciplinary Knowledge as a Foundation for Teacher Preparation11 Linn E. Forhan and Mona Scheraga: Becoming Sociopolitically ActiveEpilogue ReferencesAuthor BiographiesIndex

The Sociopolitics of English Language Teaching is an insightful and balanced collection... it offers a diversity of scope that is theoretically engaging yet accessible to novice teachers and langauge professionals unversed in these issues... The authors and editors are to be commended for the challenging perspectives and possibilities offered teachers. Brian Morgan, Canadian Modern Language Review