Challenges for Language Education and Policy

Making Space for People
Herausgeber: Spolsky, Bernard; Tannenbaum, Michal; Inbar-Lourie, Ofra

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Addressing a wide range of issues in applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, and multilingualism and offering new critical perspectives, this volume focuses on language users, the 'people.' The book is inspired by the work of Elana Shohamy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9780415711890
• ISBN-10: 0415711894
• Artikelnr.: 40542668

Autorenporträt

Bernard Spolsky is Professor Emeritus of English at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. Ofra Inbar-Lourie is head of the Teachers' Education Unit of Tel Aviv University, School of Education, Israel. Michal Tannenbaum is a Senior Lecturer and the head of the Language Education Program at Tel Aviv University, Israel.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: Dear Elana, Bernard Spolsky
Introduction: A Portrait of the Researcher in a Never-Ending Journey, Ofra
Inbar and Michal Tannenbaum
Chapter 1: Language Tests for Residency and Citizenship and the Conferring
of Individuality, Tim McNamara, Kamran Khan, and Kellie Frost
Chapter 2: Setting Standards for Multilingual Curricula to Teach and Test
Foreign Languages, Bessie Dendrinos and Voula Gotsoulia
Chapter 3: In the Name of the CEFR: Individuals and Standards, Monica Barni
Chapter 4: Acknowledging the Diversity of the Language Learner Population
in Australia: Towards Context-Sensitive Language Standards, Catherine Anne
Elder
Chapter 5: Students' Voices: The Challenge of Measuring Speaking for
Academic Contexts, Lindsay Brooks and Merrill Swain
Chapter 6: Ethical Codes and Responsibility, Alan Davies
Chapter 7: Cultivating an Ecology of Multilingualism in Schools, Ofelia
García and Kate Menken
Chapter 8: English in Ethiopia: Making Space for the Individual in Language
Policy, Elizabeth Lanza and Hirut Woldemariam
Chapter 9: Portraits of Language Activists in Indigenous Language
Revitalization, Nancy H. Hornberger
Chapter 10: Refugees in Canada: On the Loss of Social Capital, Thomas
Ricento
Chapter 11: Linguistic Landscapes Inside Multilingual Schools, Durk Gorter
and Jasone Cenoz
Chapter 12: "We Are Not Really a Mixed City"- A De-Jure Bilingual
Linguistic Landscape - The Case of Jewish-Arab Mixed Cities in Israel,
Dafna Yitzhaki and Theodorus du Plessis
Chapter 13: Hebraization in the Palestinian Language Landscape in Israel,
Muhammad Amara
Chapter 14: Hebrew in the North American Linguistic Landscape:
Materializing the Sacred, Sharon Avni
Chapter 15: Welcome: Synthetic Personalization and Commodification of
Sociability in the Linguistic Landscape of Global Tourism, Adam Jaworski
Chapter 16: A Researcher's Auto-Socioanalysis: Making Space for the
Personal, Claire Kramsch
Chapter 17: Understanding the Holocaust: A Personal History, Critical
Literacy Analysis of a Gestapo File, David I. Hanauer
Chapter 18: Language Experience Changes Language and Cognitive Ability:
Implications for Social Policy, Ellen Bialystok
Chapter 19: Strategies for the Super-Multilingual in an Increasingly Global
World, Andrew D. Cohen
Chapter 20: Gender, Sexuality and Multilingualism in the Language
Classroom, Lyn Wright Fogle and Kendall A. King
Chapter 21: Examining Markers of Identity Construction in English Language
Learning: Some Implications for Palestinian-Israeli and Jewish-Israeli
Language Learners, Julia Schlam Salman, Elite Olshtain, and Zvi Bekerman
Chapter 22: Integrational Linguistics and L2 Proficiency, James P. Lantolf
About the Contributors