Elana Shohamy

Language Policy

Hidden Agendas and New Approaches

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A critical look at language policies, how they are implemented and the hidden agendas which often lie behind them, drawing on examples from the US and UK and showing what the consequences are for the people involved.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Dezember 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 482g
• ISBN-13: 9780415328647
• ISBN-10: 0415328640
• Artikelnr.: 21572119

Autorenporträt

Elana Shohamy is affiliated with the University of Tel Aviv. She is a major figure in international applied linguistics circles and right at the top of the language policy and testing fields. She founded and co-edits a new joournal: Language Policy (Kluwer), has co-authored several books on language policy and recently published an important book on testing: The Power of Tests: critical perspectives on the uses of language tests (Pearson, 2001).

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Part I Language, manipulations, policy
Chapter 1 Expanding language
Chapter 2 Manipulating languages
Chapter 3 Expanding language policy
Part 2 Part II Mechanisms affecting de facto language policies
Chapter 4 Rules and regulations
Chapter 5 Language education policies
Chapter 6 Language tests
Chapter 7 Language in the public space
Part 3 Part III Consequences and reactions
Chapter 8 Consequences
Chapter 9 Reactions
Epilogue: Language as a free commodity
Bibliography
Index

Rezensionen

'The book is a must in the reading list of all those who believe that we academics ought to pursue our vocation in the interests of the community at large that, after all, helps sustain the institutions that host us. It is a wake-up call to critical thinking and activism.' - Kanavillil Rajagopalan, State University at Campinas, Brazil