Crawford Advocating for English Learners

Selected Essays
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-1-84769-074-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 200 Seiten

Reihe: Bilingual Education & Bilingualism

This book addresses the policy and politics of educating English language learners in the US. It covers demographic change and its educational implications, responses to language diversity, public controversies over bilingual education, high-stakes testing and its impact on English language learners and the uncertain status of language rights.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Crawford, James

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Allgemeine Didaktik Literatur, Deutsch, Fremdsprachen (Unterricht & Didaktik)
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction 2. Making Sense of Census 2000 3. Monolingual and Proud of It 4. Heritage Languages in America: Tapping a “Hidden” Resource 5. Plus ca change. 6. Concern or Intolerance: What’s Driving the Anti-Bilingual Campaign? 7. The Bilingual Education Story: Why Can’t the News Media Get It Right? 8. Ten Common Fallacies about Bilingual Education 9. Agenda for Inaction 10. “Accountability” vs. Science in the Bilingual Education Debate 11. Hard Sell: Why Is Bilingual Education So Unpopular with the American Public? 12. Has Two-Way Been Oversold? 13. Surviving the English Only Assault 14. Official English Legislation: Bad for Civil Rights, Bad for America’s Interests, and Even Bad for English 15. The Bilingual Education Act, 1968-2002: An Obituary 16. No Child Left Behind: Misguided Approach to School Accountability for English Language Learners 17. A Diminished Vision of Civil Rights 18. The Decline of Bilingual Education: How To Reverse a Troubling Trend? 19. Loose Ends in a Tattered Fabric: The Inconsistency of Language Rights in the USA

Über Autor(innen)

Crawford James:
James Crawford is president of the Institute for Language and Education Policy (www.elladvocates.org), a nonprofit research and advocacy organization. His recent books include English Learners in American Classrooms: 101 Questions, 101 Answers (coauthored with Stephen Krashen); At War with Diversity: US Language Policy in an Age of Anxiety; and Educating English Learners: Language Diversity in the Classroom (5th ed). Previously, he served as Washington editor of Education Week and executive director of the National Association for Bilingual Education.James Crawford is president of the Institute for Language and Education Policy (www.elladvocates.org), a nonprofit research and advocacy organization. His recent books include English Learners in American Classrooms: 101 Questions, 101 Answers (coauthored with Stephen Krashen); At War with Diversity: US Language Policy in an Age of Anxiety; and Educating English Learners: Language Diversity in the Classroom (5th ed). Previously, he served as Washington editor of Education Week and executive director of the National Association for Bilingual Education.