Ethnolinguistic Diversity and Education

ISBN 10: 0415802792 / ISBN 13: 9780415802796

Published by Routledge, 2009

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Ethnolinguistic Diversity and Education
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415802792
• ISBN 13: 9780415802796
• Binding: paperback
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

In recent decades, the linguistic and cultural diversity of school populations in the United States and other industrialized countries has rapidly increased along with globalization processes. At the same time, schooling as it is currently constituted continues to be ineffective for large numbers of students. Exploring crucial issues that emerge at the intersection of linguistic diversity and education, this volume:

• provides an up-to-date review of sociolinguistic research and practice aimed at improving education for students who speak vernacular varieties of US English, English-based Creole languages, and non-English languages
• explores the impact of dialect differences and community languages on ethnolinguistically diverse students’ academic achievement
• challenges the dominant monolingual Standard language ideology
• presents sociolinguistically based approaches to language and literacy education that acknowledge and build on the linguistic and cultural resources students bring into the school.

Throughout, the authors argue for the application of research-based knowledge to the dire situation (as measured by school failure and drop-out rates) of many ethnolinguistic populations in US schools. The overall aim of the volume is to heighten acknowledgement and recognition of the linguistic and cultural resources students bring into the schools and to explore ways in which these resources can be used to extend the sociolinguistic repertoires, including academic English, of all students.

About the Author

Marcia Farr is Professor of Education and English at the Ohio State University and Professor Emerita of English and Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Lisya Seloni is Assistant Professor of English in the Composition and TESOL graduate program at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

Juyoung Song is Assistant Professor in the department of English and Philosophy at Murray State University.