New Perspectives and Issues in Educational Language Policy

1. Spolsky's educational linguistics (by Cooper, Robert L.); 2. Part I: Language teaching, language learning, and literacy; 3. The monolingual teaching and bilingual learning of English (by Widdowson, Henry G.); 4. Literacy: The extension of languages through other means (by Bialystok, Ellen); 5. Bilingual processing strategies in the social context of an undergraduate immersion program (by Cohen, Andrew D.); 6. Part II: Language testing in educational contexts; 7. Some construct validity issues in interpreting scores from performance assessments of language ability (by Bachman, Lyle F.); 8. What second language learners can tell us about the native speaker: Identifying and describing exceptions (by Davies, Alan); 9. The social responsibility of the language testers (by Shohamy, Elana); 10. Part III: Multilingualism, minority languages and language planning; 11. Multilingualism and diglossia in Palestine in the first century of the common era: Some thoughts on historical sociolinguistics (by Paulston, Christina Bratt); 12. Introducing Khayem Zhitlovski (by Fishman, Joshua A.); 13. Arab language education in the Hebrew state (by Amara, Muhammad Hasan); 14. Adult use and language choice in foreign language policy (by Lambert, Richard D.); 15. Linking levels in foreign language teaching through a common frame of reference (by Bot, Kees de); 16. Part IV: Case studies in educational linguistics: Focus and policy; 17. Micro language policy as a barometer of change: A university language policy as an example (by Clyne, Michael); 18. The genesis of a district-wide Spanish FLES program: A collaborative achievement (by Tucker, G. Richard); 19. The distinctiveness of Applied Linguistics in Australia: A historical perspective (by McNamara, Tim F.); 20. Educational linguistics as a field: A view from Penn's Program as it approaches its 25th anniversary (by Hornberger, Nancy H.); 21. Index