Research Methods in Language and Education de Kendall King

Research Methods in Language and Education: Encyclopedia of Language and EducationVolume 10

Kendall King

Nancy H. Hornberger

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 iul 2010

This volume, Research Methods in Language, offers an overview of the wide range of methodological approaches to language and education across the axes of micro and macro-linguistic and social levels of analysis, as well as the multiple connections between them.The four sections each offer •Several reviews of different broad areas or subfields•Articles with a more narrow focus or demonstrating the application of an approach•International scope •Diversity of scholarly perspectivesThe resultant breadth and depth of theoretical and methodological research perspective makes this a unique and highly valuable resource.This is one of ten volumes of the Encyclopedia of Language and Education published by Springer. The Encyclopedia bears testimony to the dynamism and evolution of the language and education field, as it confronts the ever-burgeoning and irrepressible linguistic diversity and ongoing pressures and expectations placed on education around the world.

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General Editor’s Introduction .- Introduction to Volume 10: Research Methods in Language and Education .- Contributors .- Reviewers.- Section 1: Language, Society and Education.- Section 2: Language Variation, Acquisition and Education.- Section 3: Language, Culture, Discourse and Education.- Section 4: Language, Interaction and Education.- Subject Index .- Name Index .- Cumulative Subject Index .- Cumulative Name Index.- Tables of Contents: Volumes 1–10.

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Nancy H. Hornberger is Professor of Education and Director of Educational Linguistics at the Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania. Her interests include language planning and policy; bilingualism, bilingual education and biliteracy; and the ethnography of communication. Kendall King is associate professor of Educational Linguistics at the University of Minnesota. Her interests include ideological, interactional and policy aspects of second language learning and bilingualism.

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This volume, Research Methods in Language and Education, offers an overview of the wide range of methodological approaches to language and education across the axes of micro and macro-linguistic and social levels of analysis, as well as the multiple connections between them.The four sections each offer:•Several reviews of different broad areas or subfields•Articles with a more narrow focus or demonstrating the application of an approach•International scope •Diversity of scholarly perspectivesThe resultant breadth and depth of theoretical and methodological research perspective makes this a unique and highly valuable resource.This is one of ten volumes of the Encyclopedia of Language and Education published by Springer. The Encyclopedia bears testimony to the dynamism and evolution of the language and education field, as it confronts the ever-burgeoning and irrepressible linguistic diversity and ongoing pressures and expectations placed on education around the world.