Language and linguistics in context : readings and applications for teachers / edited by Harriet Luria, Deborah M. Seymour, Trudy Smoke.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Luria, Harriet.

Seymour, Deborah M.

Smoke, Trudy.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and languages.

Language.

Medical Subjects:

Language.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 427 pages ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2006.

Contents:

Unit I. What is language and how is it acquired?

Introduction to unit I : language and its acquisition / Trudy Smoke

1. human universal : the capacity to learn a language / Lila R. Gleitman

2. new view of language acquisition / Patricia K. Kuhl

3. Fundamentals of second language acquisition / Susan Cass

4. English-only movement and sign language for deaf learners : an instructive parallel / David S. Martin

5. From "let's flip the script : an African American discourse on language, literature, and learning" / Keith Gilyard

6. Hablamos Spanish and English / Ana Celia Zentella

7. This is no language : (intimate exile) / Josip Novakovich

8. Russian as a second language / Natasha Lvovich

9. Language and shame / Meena Alexander

10. Unfinished knowledge : the story of Barbara / Ryuko Kubota

11. Sociolinguistics and power / Alastair Pennycook

Unit II. How does language change?

Introduction to unit II : the history of English and language change / Deborah M. Seymour

12. Language families / Tamara M. Green

13. Where did English come from? / R.L. Trask

14. Norman conquest / Charles Barber

15. People and language / Kate Parry

16. Queen's English / Homi K. Bhabha

17. new linguistic order / Joshua A. Fishman

18. African writer and the English language / Chinua Achebe

19. Ebonic need not be English / Ralph W. Fasold

20. Languages and language learning in the face of world English / John Edwards

21. Gender issues in language change / Deborah Cameron

22. Homophobic slang as coercive discourse among college students / James D. Armstrong

Unit III. What is literacy?

Introduction to unit III : literacy and education in a globalized world / Harriet Luria

23. Definitions of literacy and their consequences / Michael Newman

24. What is literacy? / James Paul Gee

25. politics of teaching literate discourse / Lisa D. Delpit

26. Literacy and learning out of school : a review of theory and research / Glynda Hull and Katherine Schultz

27. Understanding critical writing / A. Suresh Canagarajah

28. Language, literacy, and culture : intersections and implications / Sonia Nieto

29. Educational policy for the transnational Dominican community / Marianne D. Pita and Sharon Utakis

30. Italian patterns in the American Collandia Ladies' Club : how do women make Bella Figura? / Gloria Nardini

31. Women and empowerment through literacy / Malini Ghose

32. Confessions of an English professor : globalization and the anxiety of the (standard) English practice / Robert Ji-Song Ku

33. Class talk / Gary Tare, John McMillan and Elizabeth Woodworth.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

0805855009

9780805855005

OCLC:

61204352

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