Language diversity in the classroom

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Provides comprehensive coverage of language contact in classroom settings. This work presents an analysis of the sources and implications of social disadvantage, since the nonstandard dialects that children bring with them to school - and the unfavourable perceptions of these dialects - have traditionally given rise to educational difficulties.

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Full title :Language diversity in the classroom / John Edwards.

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Publication Date:©2010.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Multilingual Matters
Place of Publication:Bristol
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2010.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (vii, 338 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781847692276, 1847692273, 1847692265, 9781847692269, 1847692257, 9781847692252
oclc:ocn593265677
LC Classification:LC3731
Dewey Decimal:370.117/50973

Introduction -- Discourse analysis and its discontents -- Disadvantage : a brief overview -- Disadvantage : the genetic case -- Disadvantage : the environmental case -- The language debate -- The persistence of linguistic deficit -- Evaluative reactions to the language of disadvantage -- Black English as Ebonics -- 'Foreign' languages in the classroom -- Multiculturalism and multicultural education -- Bilingualism : a very brief overview -- Bilingual education -- A concluding statement.

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Children with social disabilities -- Ed… Children with social disabilities -- Ed… EDUCATION -- Bilingual Education Education, Bilingual Education, Bilingual -- United States English language -- Study and teaching English language -- Study and teaching.… Languages in contact Languages in contact -- United States Langues en contact -- États-Unis Psychology sociolinguistics Teaching -- Social aspects Teaching -- Social aspects -- United St… United States