Challenges for Language Education and Policy

Preface: Dear Elana, Bernard Spolsky

Introduction: A Portrait of the Researcher in a Never-Ending Journey, Ofra Inbar and Michal Tannenbaum

Chapter 1: Language Tests for Residency and Citizenship and the Conferring of Individuality, Tim McNamara, Kamran Khan, and Kellie Frost

Chapter 2: Setting Standards for Multilingual Curricula to Teach and Test Foreign Languages, Bessie Dendrinos and Voula Gotsoulia

Chapter 3: In the Name of the CEFR: Individuals and Standards, Monica Barni

Chapter 4: Acknowledging the Diversity of the Language Learner Population in Australia: Towards Context-Sensitive Language Standards, Catherine Anne Elder

Chapter 5: Students' Voices: The Challenge of Measuring Speaking for Academic Contexts, Lindsay Brooks and Merrill Swain

Chapter 6: Ethical Codes and Responsibility, Alan Davies

Chapter 7: Cultivating an Ecology of Multilingualism in Schools, Ofelia Garcia and Kate Menken

Chapter 8: English in Ethiopia: Making Space for the Individual in Language Policy, Elizabeth Lanza and Hirut Woldemariam

Chapter 9: Portraits of Language Activists in Indigenous Language Revitalization, Nancy H. Hornberger

Chapter 10: Refugees in Canada: On the Loss of Social Capital, Thomas Ricento

Chapter 11: Linguistic Landscapes Inside Multilingual Schools, Durk Gorter and Jasone Cenoz

Chapter 12: "We Are Not Really a Mixed City"- A De-Jure Bilingual Linguistic Landscape - The Case of Jewish-Arab Mixed Cities in Israel, Dafna Yitzhaki and Theodorus du Plessis

Chapter 13: Hebraization in the Palestinian Language Landscape in Israel, Muhammad Amara

Chapter 14: Hebrew in the North American Linguistic Landscape: Materializing the Sacred, Sharon Avni

Chapter 15: Welcome: Synthetic Personalization and Commodification of Sociability in the Linguistic Landscape of Global Tourism, Adam Jaworski

Chapter 16: A Researcher's Auto-Socioanalysis: Making Space for the Personal, Claire Kramsch

Chapter 17: Understanding the Holocaust: A Personal History, Critical Literacy Analysis of a Gestapo File, David I. Hanauer

Chapter 18: Language Experience Changes Language and Cognitive Ability: Implications for Social Policy, Ellen Bialystok

Chapter 19: Strategies for the Super-Multilingual in an Increasingly Global World, Andrew D. Cohen

Chapter 20: Gender, Sexuality and Multilingualism in the Language Classroom, Lyn Wright Fogle and Kendall A. King

Chapter 21: Examining Markers of Identity Construction in English Language Learning: Some Implications for Palestinian-Israeli and Jewish-Israeli Language Learners, Julia Schlam Salman, Elite Olshtain, and Zvi Bekerman

Chapter 22: Integrational Linguistics and L2 Proficiency, James P. Lantolf

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