Full Description
Addresses the complex & divisive issues at the heart of the debate over language diversity & the English Only movement in U.S. education. Offers a range of perspectives that teachers & literacy advocates can use to inform practice as well as policy.
Contents
Contents: H.A. Giroux, Foreword: English Only and the Crisis of Memory, Culture, and Democracy. R.D. González, Introduction. Part I:Update and Document.D. Baron, Language Legislation and Language Abuse: American Language Policy Through the 1990s. E.M. Chen, Statement on the Civil Liberties Implications of Official English Legislation Before the United States Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs, December 6, 1995. R.S. Williams, K.C. Riley, Acquiring a Slice of Anglo-American Pie: A Portrait of Language Shift in a Franco-American Family. Part II:Language, Justice, and Law.D. Corson, Social Justice, Language Policy, and English Only. J.P. Perea, The New American Spanish War: How the Courts and the Legislatures Are Aiding the Suppression of Languages Other Than English. G. Valdés, Bilingual Individuals and Language-Based Discrimination: Advancing the State of the Law on Language Rights. R.H. Lee, D.F. Marshall, "Shooting Themselves in the Foot": Consequences of English Only Supporters "Going to Law." Part III:Language and Ideology.A. Pennycook, Lessons From Colonial Language Policies. L.M. Goldstein, Three Newspapers and a Linguist: A Folk Linguistic Journey Into the Land of English as the Official Language. J.H. Hill, The Racializing Function of Language Panics. A. Espinosa-Aguilar, Analyzing the Rhetoric of the English Only Movement. Part IV:Official English, Official Language, and the World.R.B. Kaplan, R.B. Baldauf, Jr., Not Only English: English Only and the World. G. Smitherman, Language and Democracy in the USA and the RSA. C. Miguélez, The "Normalization" of Minority Languages in Spain. T. Ricento, Afterword: Lessons, Caveats, and a Way Forward.
