Language, Education and Society in a Changing World brings together recent research in language planning, bilingualism, translation, discourse analysis, cultural awareness, second language learning and first and second language literacy. Expert contributors, including John Edwards, Rosamond Mitchell, Bernard Spolsky and Andrew Cohen, address many of the issues facing language teachers, researchers and policy makers in a world where languages are becoming extinct at an alarming rate and are frequently a focus for dispute and conflict; where foreign language teaching and learning are confronted by new technological and practical demands; and where modern communication media require the development of new linguistic techniques. These factors, together with the continued slow economic and educational development in the third world, where access to a 'world language' is often promoted as an educational panacea, present Applied Linguistics with major philosophical as well as practical problems. Drawing on research from North America, the European Union, Guatemala, Japan, Nigeria and Russia, this collection underlines the interdisciplinary nature of the challenges facing Applied Linguistics at the end of the twentieth century.
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Dr Tina Hickey is a Researcher at the Linguistics Institute of Ireland. A Past President of the Irish Association for Applied Linguistics and the current Convener of the AILA Child Language Commission, she has conducted research in first second language acquisition. Her most recent work has been in the area of early immersion education and bilingualism. Dr Jenny Williams is Senior Lecturer in German in the School of Applied Languages at Dublin City University. She has been involved in syllabus design and assessment in second, further and higher education. Her recent teaching and research have been in the field of Translation Studies.
Preface
Introduction
LANGUAGE AND EDUCATION
1. Rosamond Mitchell: Language, Education and Applied Linguistics in a Changing World
2. Mary Ruane: Language and Education in a Changing Society: Response to Mitchell's Keynote Address
LANGUAGE AND SOCIETY
3. John Edwards: Language and Society in a Changing World
4. Helen O Murchu: Language and Society in a Changing World: Response to Edwards's Keynote Address
LANGUAGE PLANNING
5. Bernard Spolsky: Prolegomena to an Israeli Language Policy
6. Sean Farrell: Language Policy in a Divided Community
7. Muiris O Laoire: Hebrew and lrish: Language Revival Revisited
8. Armeli Sarhimaa: Language Planning and Sociolinguistic Trends in (Soviet) Karelia 1917-1994
9. Svetlana Ter-Minasova: Foreign Language Teaching in a Changing Russia
10. Charles C. Mann: Anglo-Nigerian Pidgin in Nigerian Education: A Survey of Policy, Practice and Attitudes
11. Katherine Langan: Issues of Ethnic Participation in Language Planning in an Age of Ethnic Empowerment: Observations from Guatemala
BILINGUALISM
12. M. Spoelders, A.Z. Guiora, K. Van Leeuwen, C. Meuleman, F. Van Beisen, A. Vyt and G. De Soete: A Psycholinguistic Study of Pronunciation of Bilinguals
13. Ad Backus: Mixed Discourse as a Reflection of Bilingual Proficiency
TRANSLATION
14. Gunilla Anderman: Words and their Meaning: The Language Learner and The Translator
15. Maeve Olohan and Christoph Zahner: Translation Theory and Cognitive Linguistics
16. Eithne O'Connell: Media Translation and Translation Studies
DISCOURSE ANALYSIS
17. Britt Louise Gunnarsson: Text. Discourse Community and Culture: A Social Constructive View of Texts from Different Cultures
18. Margaret Gibbon: The Discourses of Infertility Treatment: A French-English Comparison
CULTURAL AWARENESS
19. Liam Mac Mathuna: Integrating Language and Cultural Awareness Components in Irish-Language Teaching Programmes
20. Peter J. Heffernan: The lntercultural made Explicit in the Teaching of Cultural Content in a Bilingual, Multicultural Country
SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNING/SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
21. Andrew D. Cohen: How Immersed Are Students in Immersion Programs?
22. John Harris and Lelia Murtagh: Topic and Language Activity in Teaching Irish at Sixth Grade in Primary School: A Classroom Observation Study
23. Edith Buchholz and Antje Dusterhoft: Databases - a Useful Tool for Language Teachers to Better Meet the Diverse Needs of Modern Learners
24. Angela Chambers: LSP Theory and Second Language Acquisition
25. Ema Ushioda: Developing a Dynamic Concept of L2 Motivation
26. David Singleton: Crosslinguistic Lexical Operations and the L2 Mental Lexicon
27. Brian Tomlinson: Helping L2 Readers to See
28. Hitomi Masuhara, Takashi Kimura, Atsushi Fukada and Masao Takeuchi: Strategy Training or/and Extensive Reading?
29. Roland Walker: Thinking Crazy about Mother Tongue Literacy: Acting Responsibly to Foster Appropriate Education
