Educational Linguistics by Hornberger, Nancy H.;

Short description:

A new title in the acclaimed Routledge Major Works series, Critical Concepts in Linguistics, this is a six-volume collection of cutting-edge and canonical research on educational linguistics.

Long description:

What educational approaches best serve language-minority children? What policies, programmes, and circumstances encourage or contribute to minority-language maintenance? How do we make sense of the ecology of language development and socialization in non-traditional settings? And what is the relationship of language, learning, and technology?

These are the kinds of dizzying questions addressed by those working in educational linguistics. The subdiscipline first came to prominence in the 1970s, and in recent decades it has expanded rapidly. It is now a well-established field of teaching and scholarly research.

As serious academic thinking about and around educational linguistics continues to flourish and develop, this new title in the Routledge Major Works series, Critical Concepts in Linguistics, meets the need for an authoritative reference work to make sense of the subject’s vast literature and the continuing explosion in research output. Edited by Nancy H. Hornberger, Goldie Anna Professor of Education and Director of the Educational Linguistics Program at the University of Pennsylvania, USA, this Routledge Major Work is a six-volume collection of foundational and cutting-edge contributions.

With a comprehensive introduction, newly written by the editor, which places the collected material in its historical and intellectual context, Educational Linguistics is an essential work of reference. It is destined to be valued by specialists and scholars working in the area—as well as by educational policy-makers and professionals—as a vital one-stop research tool.

Table of Contents:

Part 1: Child Language Acquisition

Part 2: Bilingualism

Part 3: Communicative Competence/Repertoire

Part 4: Language Socialization

Part 5: Language Inequality

Part 6: (Multilingual) Classroom Discourse/Participation Structures

Part 7: Culturally Relevant Pedagogy

Part 8: Standard and Non-standard Languages

Part 9: Bilingual Education

Part 10: Interactional and Sociocultural Perspectives on Language (in) Pedagogy

Part 11: Language Awareness and Critical Language Awareness

Part 12: Testing and Assessment

Part 13: Language Planning Processes

Part 14: Language Policy and Ideology

Part 15: Ethnography of Language Policy

Part 16: Educators as Language Policy Makers

Part 17: Multilingualism and Ecology of Language

Part 18: Multilingualism and Education

Part 19: Biliteracy and Translanguaging

Part 20: Literacies and Multiliteracies

Part 21: Language Practices and Identity Construction

Part 22: Identity and Language Learning

Part 23: Heritage Language Education and Minority Language Rights

Part 24: Indigenous Language Revitalization and Reversing Language Shift