Research Methods in Language and Education (v. 8): Volume 8: Research Methods in Language and Education (Encyclopedia of Language and Education) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0792346424 ISBN 13: 9780792346425

Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997

Synopsis

The present volume seeks to enable language and education practitioners, researchers, and interested lay readers alike to get a sense of the range of issues being pursued in language and education research and the array of methods employed to do so. A major assumption of the volume is that both micro and macro perspectives and both social and linguistic levels of analysis are critical for an understanding of the interaction between language and education. It is organized in four parts, focusing in turn on language and education in relation to society, variation, culture, and interaction. The contributing scholars represent a great diversity of linguistic, cultural, and disciplinary traditions, but represent a unity of purpose with regard to the central role of language as both vehicle and mediator of educational processes, and to the need for continued and deepening research in this area.

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Review

.,." this encyclopedia is excellent: comprehensive, international, clear, to the point and politically aware. Every student teacher should have access to it, and it will be an essential resource for policy makers who want to rely on solid research rather than - as so often in this area - emotion and prejudice." Raphael Salkie in The Times Higher Education Supplement "An extremely valuable contribution to the field, this encyclopedia should be included in the collection of every serious academic library." T. Reagan in Choice, 36: 1 (1998)

About the Author

Nancy H. Hornberger is Professor of Education and Director of Educational Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. Recent three-time Fulbright Senior Specialist, to Paraguay, New Zealand, and South Africa respectively, Hornberger teaches, lectures, and advises on multilingualism and education throughout the world and has authored or edited over two dozen books, including most recently Can Schools Save Indigenous Languages? Policy and Practice on Four Continents (Palgrave Macmillan 2008), and the ten-volume Encyclopedia of Language and Education (Springer 2008).

Edition details

• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0792346424
• ISBN 13: 9780792346425
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 272
• Editor: Hornberger Nancy H., Corson David