New perspectives and issues in educational language policy: a festschrift for Bernard Dov Spolsky
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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam J. Benjamins Pub. Co. ©2001
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
New Perspectives and Issues in Educational Language Policy; Editorial page; LCC page; Table of contents; Spolsky 's educational linguistics; Part I. Language teaching, language learning, and literacy; The monolingual teaching and bilingual learning of English; Literacy: The extension of languages through other means; Bilingual processing strategies in the social context of an undergraduate immersion program; Part II. Language testing in educational contexts; Some construct validity issues in interpreting scores from performance assessments of language ability
This formidable 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, Lambe
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (vi, 307 pages)
ISBN:1556198558
9027225613
9027298513
9781556198557
9789027298515

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