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Language, Education, and Ideology Mapping the Linguistic Landscape of U.S. Schools
Timothy Reagan
Book Code: H752
ISBN: 0-89789-752-8
ISBN-13: 978-0-89789-752-5
216 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 11/30/2002
List Price: $98.95 (UK Sterling Price: £57.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects: Reviews:
  • This cogent, well-written essay, intended to persuade as much as to inform, explores contemporary sociolinguistic conclusions about language....This book would be particularly suitable for undergraduates who have not encountered its premises before. Highly recommended. Undergraduate collections.
    —Choice     September 2003
Description: Research and scholarship in critical pedagogy is impressive, extensive, and powerful, and has had significant impact on nearly every aspect of contemporary educational scholarship. One area in which critical theory and critical pedagogy have been slow to have a noticeable effect, however, is that of language education, especially foreign language education. Further, while a number of important works address issues of critical literacy, there are no general works presenting critical perspectives on language and language issues targeting classroom teachers and other educators. This work offers a broad and comprehensive overview of language and linguistic issues that emerge in the classroom context from a critical philosophical perspective. The central focus is on the nexus of issues of language, education, and ideology, as the title suggests, and specific topics covered will include language and power, linguistic purism, the marginalization of second language education in the United States, the phenomenon of ideological monolingualism in the United States, the hierarchy of the "less commonly taught" languages (both in terms of its etiology and the ideological and hegemonic functions this hierarchy serves), nonmainstream language varieties in school settings, issues of linguistic legitimacy in the classroom context, the politics and ideological context of bilingual education in the United States, language policy both as a tool for oppression and as a means of empowerment, and finally, the need for critical language awareness on the part of all educators.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Language and Power in School and Society: Cui bono?
  • "French isn't a real class": The Marginalization of Foreign Language Education
  • Failure as Success: Language and Ideology in U.S. Foreign Language Education
  • Why Study Uzbek? Considering the Less Commonly Taught Languages
  • My Language Is Better Than Yours: Language Bias and Language Variation in the Classroom
  • Language and Multiculturalism: Coming to Grips with Diversity
  • Delighting in Dead Languages: Critical Pedagogy and the Classics
  • Fallacies, Factoids, and Frustrations: Bilingual Education in the United States
  • Language for Oppression, Language for Liberation: Language Policy as Applied Sociolinguistics
  • Critical Language Awareness in the Curriculum
  • Bibliography
  • Index
LC Card Number: 2002067302
LCC Class: P40
Dewey Class: 418
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