Critical Applied Linguistics

A Critical Introduction

By Alastair Pennycook

This accessible guide and introduction to critical applied linguistics provides a clear overview, highlighting problems, debates, and competing views in language education, literacy, discourse analysis,...

Published January 1st 2001 by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

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Landmark Essays on ESL Writing

Volume 17

Edited by Tony Silva, Paul Kei Matsuda

In recent years, the number of nonnative speakers of English in colleges and universities in North America has increased dramatically. As a result, more and...

Published January 1st 2001 by Routledge.

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Remaining and Becoming

Cultural Crosscurrents in An Hispano School

By Shelley Roberts

Remaining and Becoming: Cultural Crosscurrents in an Hispano School deals with the politics of identity and the concept of boundaries during a time of rapid...

Published December 1st 2000 by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

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On Second Language Writing

Edited by Tony Silva, Paul Kei Matsuda

On Second Language Writing brings together internationally recognized scholars in a collection of original articles that, collectively, delineate and explore central issues with regard to...

Published December 1st 2000 by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

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Second Language Acquisition

An Introductory Course

By Susan M. Gass, Larry Selinker, Susan M. Gass

Published December 1st 2000 by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

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Illegal Alphabets and Adult Biliteracy

Latino Migrants Crossing the Linguistic Border

By Tomas Mario Kalmar, Tomas Mario Kalmar

Illegal Alphabets and Adult Biliteracy--based on four years of intensive fieldwork in a small rural community in Southern Illinois--is a landmark work in the area...

Published November 1st 2000 by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

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Language Ideologies

Critical Perspectives on the Official English Movement, Volume I: Education and the Social Implications of Official Language

Edited by Roseann Due¤as Gonz lez, Ildik¢ Melis, Roseann Duenas Gonzalez, Ildiko Melis, NCTE

How do educators balance the rights of the rapidly growing percentage of the United States' population whose first language is not English or whose English...

Published November 1st 2000 by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

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Language Diversity and Education

By David Corson

This introductory text for students of linguistics, language, and education provides background and up-to-date information and resources that beginning researchers need for studying language diversity...

Published October 1st 2000 by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

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Linguistics for L2 Teachers

By Larry Andrews

Linguistics for L2 Teachers is designed to help bilingual and ESL teachers better understand how and why the English language works, and to broaden their...

Published October 1st 2000 by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

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Effective Programs for Latino Students

Edited by Robert E. Slavin, Margarita Calder¢n, Margarita Calderon

Latino (or Hispanic) children are one of the fastest-growing groups in U.S. schools today. On average, these students perform worse than Anglo students on measures...

Published September 1st 2000 by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

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