Language Policies and the Politics of Language Practices : Essays in Honour of Sjaak Kroon / edited by Massimiliano Spotti, Jos Swanenberg, Jan Blommaert.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Blommaert, Jan, editor.

Swanenberg, Adrianus Petrus Cornelis, 1968- editor.

Kroon, Sjaak, honouree.

Spotti, Massimiliano, 1974- editor.

Series:

Language Policy, 2452-1027 ; 28

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education and state.

Language policy.

Language and languages--Study and teaching.

Language and languages.

Educational Policy and Politics.

Language Policy and Planning.

Language Education.

Local Subjects:

Educational Policy and Politics.

Language Policy and Planning.

Language Education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (163 pages)

Edition:

1st ed. 2021.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2021.

Summary:

This edited volume consists of chapters celebrating the career of scholar Sjaak Kroon, who has produced ground-breaking work in the field of ethnography of education, immigrant minority language teaching and language politics. The chapters cover the use of immigrant minority languages in education and the development of policies at all levels and across the globe in this sometimes over-policed field. It particularly focuses on language policy analysis in which both the top-down institutional and the bottom-up ethnographic dimensions are blended, and in which globalization is the main macro-perspective. The chapters describe sensitive tools for investigating, unravelling and understanding the grey space connecting formal language policies to informal politics and practices of language on the ground.

Contents:

1. Introduction to Language Policies and the Politics of Language Practices

2. Sociolinguistic re-stratification in the online-offline nexus: Trump’s viral errors

3. L2 learning while doing togetherness on You Tube: Exploring the role of a socio-technological platform in an asylum seeking centre

4. Colonial and Missionary Contributions in Tigrinya Reading Instruction in Eritrea

5. The Cuban literacy programme in Timor-Leste: ‘magic’ on the blackboard

6. Assessing Multilingualism at School

7. Creating Quarter for Doing Things with Language

8. Teachers in Training and the Policing of Language Variation

9. Preach or practise? Preach and practice! Sjaak Kroon’s contributions to language practices and models for language policy

10. Afterword: The Kroonian paradigm: Sjaak Kroon’s distinctive style of language work.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Print version: Spotti, Massimiliano Language Policies and the Politics of Language Practices

ISBN:

9783030887230

3030887235