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Editor(s): Roseann Gonzalez, Ildiko Melis
The contributors to this first of two volumes come from varying backgrounds and together explore the political, legislative, social, and educational implications of language ideologies.
ISBN/ISSN: 9780814126677
Stock No.: 26677
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Education and the Social Implications of Official Language
This collection addresses the complicated and divisive issues at the heart of the debate over language diversity and the English Only movement in U.S. public education. Blending social, political, and legal analyses of the ideologies of language with perspectives on the impact of the English Only movement on education and on classrooms at all levels, Language Ideologies offers a wide range of perspectives that teachers and literacy advocates can use to inform practice as well as policy.
The contributors to this first of two volumes come from varying backgrounds and together explore the political, legislative, social, and educational implications of language ideologies.
320 pp. 2000. Grades K–College. NCTE and Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
ISBN 10: 0-8141-2667-7; ISBN 13: 978-0-8141-2667-7.
No. 26677
2004 American Educational Studies Association Critics' Choice Selection
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