Language diversity in the classroom /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Edwards, John
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: Bristol ; Buffalo : Multilingual Matters, c2010.
Series:Bilingual education and bilingualism.
Subjects:
Children with social disabilities > Education > United States.
Education, Bilingual > United States.
English language > Study and teaching > United States > Foreign speakers.
Languages in contact > United States.
Teaching > Social aspects > United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Discourse analysis and its discontents
  • Disadvantage : a brief overview
  • Disadvantage : the genetic case
  • Disadvantage : the environmental case
  • The language debate
  • The persistence of linguistic deficit
  • Evaluative reactions to the language of disadvantage
  • Black English as Ebonics
  • 'Foreign' languages in the classroom
  • Multiculturalism and multicultural education
  • Bilingualism : a very brief overview
  • Bilingual education
  • A concluding statement.

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