This book, addressed to experienced and novice language educators, provides an up-to-date overview of sociolinguistics, reflecting changes in the global situation and the continuing evolution of the field and its relevance to language education around the world. Topics covered include nationalism and popular culture, style and identity, creole languages, critical language awareness, gender and ethnicity, multimodal literacies, classroom discourse, and ideologies and power. Whether considering the role of English as an international language or innovative initiatives in Indigenous language revitalization, in every context of the world sociolinguistic perspectives highlight the fluid and flexible use of language in communities and classrooms, and the importance of teacher practices that open up spaces of awareness and acceptance of --and access to--the widest possible communicative repertoire for students.
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This book provides an up-to-date overview of sociolinguistics, including topics of nationalism and popular culture, style and identity, creole languages, critical language awareness, multimodal literacies, classroom discourse, ideologies and power, across various language education contexts.
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Introduction: Sociolinguistics and Language Education - Nancy H. Hornberger and Sandra Lee McKay LANGUAGE AND IDEOLOGY Language and Ideologies - Mary E. McGroarty Language, Power and Pedagogies - Hilary Janks Nationalism, Identity and Popular Culture - Alastair Pennycook LANGUAGE AND SOCIETY English as an International Language - Sandra Lee McKay Multilingualism and Codeswitching in Education - Nkonko M. Kamwangamalu Language Policy and Planning - Joseph Lo Bianco LANGUAGE AND VARIATION Style and Styling - Jürgen Jaspers Critical Language Awareness - H. Samy Alim Pidgins and Creoles - Jeff Siegel LANGUAGE AND LITERACY Cross-cultural Perspectives on Writing: Contrastive Rhetoric - Ryuko Kubota Sociolinguistics, Language Teaching and New Literacy Studies - Brian Street and Constant Leung Multimodal Literacy in Language Classrooms - Viniti Vaish and Phillip A. Towndrow LANGUAGE AND IDENTITY Language and Identity - Bonny Norton Gender Identities in Language Education - Christina Higgins Language and Ethnicity - Angela Reyes Language Socialization - Patricia A. Duff LANGUAGE AND INTERACTION Language and Culture - Gabriele Kasper and Makoto Omori Conversation Analysis - Jack Sidnell Classroom Discourse Analysis: A Focus on Communicative Repertoires - Betsy Rymes LANGUAGE AND EDUCATION Language and Education: A Limpopo Lens - Nancy H. Hornberger
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The very size and richness of this volume makes it ideal for multiple shorter self-designed explorations. So each reader can enter through the chapter of greatest interest at the moment (for me the first time, it was "Language Policy and Planning" in the Language and Society section). Then follow your own links to Language and Ideology, Variation, Literacy, Identity, and Interaction. It belongs in all our personal libraries.
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Product details

ISBN
9781847692825
Published
2010-06-17
Publisher
Vendor
Multilingual Matters
Weight
880 gr
Height
234 mm
Width
156 mm
Thickness
31 mm
Age
P, 06
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
592

Biographical note

Nancy H. Hornberger is Professor of Education and Director of Educational Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. Recent three-time Fulbright Senior Specialist, to Paraguay, New Zealand, and South Africa respectively, Hornberger teaches, lectures, and advises on multilingualism and education throughout the world and has authored or edited over two dozen books, including most recently Can Schools Save Indigenous Languages? Policy and Practice on Four Continents (Palgrave Macmillan 2008), and the ten-volume Encyclopedia of Language and Education (Springer 2008).

Sandra McKay is Professor Emeritus of English at San Francisco State University. Her books include Teaching English as an International Language: Rethinking Goals and Approaches (2002, OUP) and Sociolinguistics and Language Teaching (edited with Nancy Hornberger, 1996, CUP). Her newest book is International English in its Sociolinguistic Contexts: Towards a Socially Sensitive Pedagogy (with Wendy Bokhorst-Heng, 2008, Frances Taylor). She has received Fulbright Grants, academic specialists awards and worked extensively in international teacher education in Asia, Africa, South America and Europe.