Languages in School and Society: Policy and PedagogyMary E. McGroarty, Christian J. Faltis CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians etc. to the development of the sociology of language.
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Introduction | 55 |
The prelude to communication | 57 |
Insights from a case study of curriculum development | 335 |
The case of Connecticut | 359 |
The testing of language proficiency | 379 |
Introduction | 381 |
The case of reading comprehension | 383 |
On teaching and testing learner proficiency in the case of foreign languages used in a diglossic situation | 409 |
The validation of oral performance tests for second language learners | 423 |
Home and school contexts for language learning | 439 |
Its use in interactive second language instruction | 71 |
Task variation and classroom learner discourse | 85 |
What do we know about effective second language teaching? | 107 |
Past influences current practices future trends | 117 |
Introduction | 441 |
Tom Dick and Harry at home and at school | 443 |
Using the ethnography of AfricanAmerican communications in teaching composition to bidialectal students | 465 |
The experience of two MexicanAmerican preschoolers | 487 |
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academic culture achievement activities analysis Applied Linguistics approach assessment attitudes basal readers basilectal behaviors bidialectal bilingual education Black English Cambridge Chicano children's literature cloze cognitive communicative communicative language teaching competence context contingent queries conversation cooperative learning curriculum dialogue discourse discussion effective English language ESL teachers ethnographic evaluation example focus foreign language French grade grammar Haitian Creole Hispanic input Interview Jennifer language minority students language testing Latino learners lesson linguistic homogeneity/heterogeneity literacy meaning mesolectal methodology methods native speakers Néstor Newbury House oral parent involvement participation pedagogical peer interaction perspective Politzer practice problem qiyās Québec questions ratings relationship response role Rowley second language acquisition second language learning situations social sociolinguistic specific speech standard story strategies structure syllabus talk target language task TESOL Quarterly theory tion topic University Press variables words writing York