Languages in School and Society : : Policy and Pedagogy / / ed. by Christian J. Faltis, Mary E. McGroarty.
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics 1990 - 1999 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011] ©1991 |
Year of Publication: | 2011 |
Edition: | Reprint 2011 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL] ,
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (570 p.) :; Num. figs. |
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Table of Contents:
- I-VI
- Part I: Language issues in wilder contexts
- Introduction
- The logical bases of linguistic prescriptivism: A parallel between Classical grammarians and Moslem legal theorists
- A methodological check on three cross-polity studies of linguistic homogeneity/heterogeneity
- Aménagements de frontière et datations des changements phonologiques
- L’etat, gardien de la langue: A diachronic view of language policy and planning in Québec
- Part II: Developments in second language pedagogy
- Introduction
- Interaction: The prelude to communication
- The scenario: Its use in interactive second language instruction
- Four conversations: Task variation and classroom learner discourse
- What do we know about effective second language teaching?
- Second language teaching methodologies: Past influences, current practices, future trends
- Communicative syllabus design
- Teaching across academic cultures: Toward an anthropology of ESL
- Part III: Research in the second language classroom
- Introduction
- Some observations on progress in research in second language learning and teaching
- Discourse processes in the second language classroom
- Tapping the peer interaction resource
- ESL children and children's literature
- Cooperative principles, computers, and classroom language
- Part IV: Bilingual education for language minority students
- Introduction
- Preparing teachers for effective bilingual instruction
- Competencies for teachers of language minority students
- The role of Spanish language varieties in the bilingual classroom
- Getting to higher ground: The development of thinking skills for Spanish-speaking students
- Lesson design for teachers of language minority students: Insights from a case study of curriculum development
- Using qualitative research to shape policy and promote effective practice in bilingual education: The case of Connecticut
- Part V: The testing of language proficiency
- Introduction
- Testing linguistic and communicative proficiency: The case of reading comprehension
- On teaching and testing learner proficiency in the case of foreign languages used in a diglossic situation
- The validation of oral performance tests for second language learners
- Part VI: Home and school contexts for language learning
- Introduction
- Ethnolinguistic minority groups and literacy: Tom, Dick and Harry at home and at school
- Using the ethnography of African-American communications in teaching composition to bidialectal students
- Home and school contexts for language development: The experience of two Mexican-American preschoolers
- Relating experience and text: Socially constituted reading activity*
- Recasting frames: Latino parent involvement
- Author Index
- Subject Index