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Cooper, Robert L., Elana Shohamy and Joel Walters, eds. 2001. New Perspectives and Issues in Educational Language Policy: In honour of Bernard Dov Spolsky. John Benjamins. vi + 307 pp.
Publication type
Book – edited volume
Publication language
English
Keywords
education | educational linguistics | language planning | language policy | language teaching
ISBN
90 272 2561 3

Annotation

This selection of papers reflects the psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic underpinnings of the interface between language and education. Following an introduction that positions the field of educational linguistics historically and conceptually, the volume presents 15 contributions by leading scholars that cover the four areas most central to the field: Language teaching, language learning and literacy (Widdowson, Bialistok, Cohen & Allison); Language testing (Bachman, Davies, and Shohamy); Multilingualism, minority languages and language planning (Bratt-Paulston, Fishman, Lambert, Amara, de Bot & van Els); Language policy (Clyne, Tucker, Donato & Murday, McNamara & Lo Bianco, and Hornberger).

Articles in this volume

Cooper, Robert L., Elana Shohamy and Joel Waters. Spolsky’s educational linguistics. 1–4
Widdowson, Henry G. The monolingual teaching and bilingual learning of English. 7–18
Bialystok, Ellen. Literacy: The extension of languages through other means. 19–33
Cohen, Andrew D. and Kirk C. Allison. Bilingual processing strategies in the social context of an undergraduate immersion program. 35–60
Bachman, Lyle F. Some construct validity issues in interpreting scores from performance assessments of language ability. 63–90
Davies, Alan. What second language learners can tell us about the native speaker: Identifying and describing exceptions. 91–112
Shohamy, Elana. The social responsibility of the language testers. 113–130
Paulston, Christina Bratt. Multilingualism and diglossia in Palestine in the first century of the common era: Some thoughts on historical sociolinguistics. 133–143
Fishman, Joshua A. Introducing Khayem Zhitlovski. 145–154
Amara, Muhammad Hasan. Arab language education in the Hebrew state. 155–170
Lambert, Richard D. Adult use and language choice in foreign language policy. 171–196
Bot, Kees de and Theo van Els. Linking levels in foreign language teaching through a common frame of reference. 197–208
Clyne, Michael G. Micro language policy as a barometer of change: A university language policy as an example. 211–234
Tucker, G. Richard, Richard Donato and Kimmaree Murday. The genesis of a district-wide Spanish FLES program: A collaborative achievement. 235–259
McNamara, Tim and Joseph Lo Bianco. The distinctiveness of Applied Linguistics in Australia: A historical perspective. 261–269
Hornberger, Nancy H. Educational linguistics as a field: A view from Penn’s Program as it approaches its 25th anniversary. 271–297