Language Diversity in the Classroom

Auteur

John Edwards is a Professor of Psychology at St Francis Xavier University. His research interests are in language, identity and the many ramifications of their relationship. He has lectured and presented papers on this topic in some thirty countries. Professor Edwards is the editor of the Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development. He is the author of several books including Language and Identity (Cambridge, 2009) and Un mundo de lenguas (Aresta, 2009) as well as many articles, chapters and reviews.

Contenu

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Discourse Analysis and its Discontents

Chapter 3: Disadvantage: A Brief Overview

Chapter 4: Disadvantage: The Genetic Case

Chapter 5: Disadvantage: The Environmental Case

Chapter 6: The Language Debate

Chapter 7: The Persistence of Linguistic Deficit

Chapter 8: Evaluative Reactions to the Language of Disadvantage

Chapter 9: Black English as Ebonics

Chapter 10: 'Foreign' Languages in the Classroom

Chapter 11: Multiculturalism and Multicultural Education

Chapter 12: Bilingualism: A Very Brief Overview

Chapter 13: Bilingual Education

Chapter 14: A Concluding Statement