Language Diversity in the Classroom / / John Edwards.
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 these dia...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2009] ©2009 |
| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Bilingual Education & Bilingualism
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (312 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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