Linguistic anthropology of education / edited by Stanton Wortham and Betsy Rymes.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wortham, Stanton, 1963-

Rymes, Betsy

James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and education.

Anthropological linguistics.

Physical Description:

vi, 279 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2003.

Summary:

Illustrates the analytic power that educational research can gain by using tools from contempormary linguistic anthropology and encourages new research along these lines.

Contents:

1. Linguistic Anthropology of Education: An Introduction / Stanton Wortham 1

2. Language, Identity, and Learning in the Era of "Expert-Guided" Systems / James Collins 31

3. Communicative Practice, Cultural Production, and Situated Learning: Constructing and Contesting Identities of Expertise in a Heterogeneous Learning Context / Kevin O'Connor 61

4. Linguistic Anthropology and Language Education: A Comparative Look at Language Socialization / Agnes Weiyun He 93

5. Relating Word to World: Indexicality During Literacy Events / Betsy Rymes 121

6. "Imagined Competence": Classroom Evaluation, Collective Identity, and Linguistic Authenticity in a Corsican Bilingual Classroom / Alexandra Jaffe 151

7. "Ellos se comen las eses/heces": The Perceived Language Differences of Matambu / Karen Stocker 185

8. Voices of the Children: Language and Literacy Ideologies in a Dual Language Immersion Program / Norma Gonzalez, Elizabeth Arnot-Hopffer 213

9. Linguistic Anthropology of Education (LAE) in Context / Nancy H. Hornberger 245.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

ISBN:

0897898230

OCLC:

49647913