Languages in School and Society : : Policy and Pedagogy / / ed. by Christian J. Faltis, Mary E. McGroarty.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics 1990 - 1999
• MitwirkendeR: Bosco, Frederick J.,; Cohen, Andrew D.,; Coughran, Consuelo C.,; DeStefano, Johanna S.,; DeVillar, Robert A.,; Delgado-Gaitán, Concha,; Di Pietro, Robert J.,; Enright, D. Scott,; Fathman, Ann K.,; Fishman, Joshua A.,; Greenberg, Joseph H.,; Hernández, José Salvador,; Johnson, Donna M.,; Kinginger, Celeste S.,; Martinet, André,; McConnell, Grant D.,; McGroarty, Mary,; Meldman, Mindy A.,; Merino, Barbara J.,; Milk, Robert D.,; Morales, Frances,; Pease-Alvarez, Lucinda,; Porter, Patricia A.,; Prince, Cynthia D.,; Ramirez, Arnulfo G.,; Rhodes Hoover, Mary,; Rivers, Wilga M.,; Robinson, James H.,; Savignon, Sandra J.,; Schecter, Sandra R.,; Solano, Frank R.,; Thonis, Eleanor W.,; Torres-Guzmán, Maria E.,; Valdman, Albert,; Whalley, Elizabeth,
• HerausgeberIn: Faltis, Christian J.,; McGroarty, Mary E.,
• 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] , 58
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (570 p.) :; Num. figs.
• Other title: 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 --; 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 --; 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 --; 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 --; 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 --; 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110869132; 9783110636895
• ISSN: 1861-0676
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110869132
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Christian J. Faltis, Mary E. McGroarty.