Language and Linguistics in Context: Readings and Applications for Teachers

Front Cover
Language and Linguistics in Context
Copyright Page
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Unit I: What is Language and How
is it Acquired?
	Introduction
to Unit I: Language and Its Acquisition: Trudy Smoke
	1. A Human Universal: The Capacity to Learn a
Language: Lila R. Gleitman
		Questions to Think About
		Terms to Define
	2. A New View of Language Acquisition: Patricia K. Kuhl
		Questions to Think About
		Terms to Define
	3. Fundamentals of Second Language Acquisition: Susan Gass
		Questions to Think About
		Terms to Define
	4. The English-Only
Movement and Sign Language for Deaf Learners: An Instructive Parallel: David S. Martin
		Questions to Think About
		Ternls to Define
	5. From \"Let\'s Flip the Script: An African American Discourse on Language, Literature, and Learning\": Keith
Gilyard
		Questions to
Think About
		Terms to Define
	6. Hablamos Spanish and English: Ana Celia Zentella
		Questions to Think About
		Terms to Define
	7. This is no Language. (Intimate Exile): Josip Novakovich
		Questions to Think About
		Terms to Define
	8. Russian as a Second Language: Natasha Lvovich
		Questions to Think About
		Terms to Define
	9. Language and Shame: Meena Alexander
		Questions to Think About
		Terms
to Define
	10. Unfinished Knowledge: The Story of Barbara: Ryuko Kubota
		Questions to Think About
		Terms to Define
	11. Sociolinguistics and Power: Alastair Pennycook
		Questions to Think About
		Terms to Define
	Unit I: Questions, Activities, and Resources
		Extending Your Understanding and Making Connections
		Applications for Teaching
		Print and Web Resources
Unit II: How Does Language Change?
	Introduction to Unit II: The History of English and Language Change: Deborah M. Seymour
	12. Language Families: Tamara M. Green
		Questions to Think About
		Terms to Define
	13. Where Did English Come From?: R. L. Trask
		Questions to Think About
		Terms to Define
	14. The Norman Conquest: Charles Barber
		Questions to Think About
		Terms to Define
	15. People and Language: Kate Parry
		Questions to Think About
		Terms to Define
	16. Queen\'s English: Homi K. Bhabha
		Questions to Think About
		Terms to Define
	17. The New Linguistic Order:  Joshua A. Fishman
		Questions to Think About
		Terms to Define
	18. The African Writer and the English Language: Chinua Achebe
		Questions to Think About
		Terms to Define
	19. Ebonic Need Not Be English: Ralph W. Fasold
		Questions to Think About
		Terms to Define
	20. Languages and Language Learning in the Face of World English: John Edwards
		Questions to Think About
		Terms to Define
	21. Gender Issues in Language Change: Deborah Cameron
		Questions to Think About
		Terms to Define
	22. Homophobic Slang as Coercive Discourse Among College Students: James D. Armstrong
		Questions to Think About
		Terms to Define
	Unit II: Questions, Activities, and Resources
		Extending Your Understanding and Making Connections
		Applications for Teaching
		Print and Web Resources
Unit III: What is Literacy?
	Introduction to Unit III: Literacy and Education in a Globalized World: Harriet Luria
	23. Definitions of Literacy and Their Consequences: Michael Newman
		Questions to Think About
		Terms to Define
	24. \'what Is Literacy?: James Paul Gee
		Questions to Think About
		Terms to Define
	25. The Politics of Teaching Literate Discourse: Lisa D. Delpit
		Questions to Think About
		Terms to Define
	26. Literacy and Learning Out of School:
A Review of Theory and Research: Glynda Hull and Katherine Schultz
		Questions to Think About
		Terms to Define
	27. Understanding Critical Writing: A. Suresh Canagarajah
		Questions to Think About
		Terms to Define
	28. Language, Literacy, and Culture: Intersections and Implications: Sonia Nieto
		Questions to Think About
		Terms to Define
	29. Educational Policy for the Transnational Dominican Community: Marianne D. Pita and Sharon Utakis
		Questions to Think About
		Terms to Define
	30. Italian Patterns in the American Collandia Ladies\' Club: How Do Women Make Bella Figura?: Gloria Nardini
		Questions to Think About
		Terms to Define
	31. Women and Empowerment Through Literacy: Malini Ghose
		Questions to Think About
		Tenns to Define
	32. Confessions of an English Professor: Globalization and the Anxiety of the (Standard) English Practice: Robert.Ji-Song
Ku
		Questions to Think About
		Terms to Define
	33. Class Talk: Gary Tate, John McMillan, and Elizabeth Woodworth
		Questions to Think About
		Terms to Define
	Unit III: Questions, Activities, and Resources
		Extending your Understanding and Making Connections
		Applications for Teaching
		Print and Web Resources
Credits
Author Index
Subject Index