Language, Power, and Pedagogy: Bilingual Children in the CrossfireMultilingual Matters, 01/01/2000 - 309 من الصفحات As linguistic diversity increases in countries around the world, policy-makers and educators are faced with complex and conflictual issues regarding appropriate ways of educating a multilingual school population. This volume reviews the research and theory relating to instruction and assessment of bilingual pupils, focusing not only on issues of language learning and teaching but also the ways in which power relations in the wider society affect patterns of teacher-pupil interaction in the classroom. |
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Theory as Dialogue | 1 |
Issues and Contexts | 8 |
Language Interactions in the Classroom From Coercive to Collaborative Relations of Power | 31 |
The Nature of Language Proficiency | 53 |
Language Proficiency in Academic Contexts | 57 |
Critiques of the ConversationalAcademic Language Proficiency Distinction | 86 |
Assessing Second Language Proficiency Among Adults Do We Know What We Are Measuring? | 112 |
Dilemmas of Inclusion Integrating English Language Learners in StandardsBased Reform | 140 |
From Bilingual Education to Transformative Pedagogy | 169 |
The Threshold and Interdependence Hypotheses Revisited | 173 |
Research Theory and Policy in Bilingual Education Evaluating the Credibility of Empirical Data | 201 |
Challenging the Discourse of Disempowerment Through Collaborative Dialogue | 232 |
Transformative Pedagogy Who Needs It? | 246 |
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