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1 online resource (352 pages) |
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface: Dear Elana; Introduction: A Portrait of the Researcher in a Never-Ending Journey; PART 1 Restoring People to Language Assessment; 1 Language Tests for Residency and Citizenship and the Conferring of Individuality; 2 Setting Standards for Multilingual Curricula to Teach and Test Foreign Languages; 3 In the Name of the CEFR: Individuals and Standards; 4 Acknowledging the Diversity of the Language Learner Population in Australia: Towards Context-Sensitive Language Standards |
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5 Students' Voices: The Challenge of Measuring Speaking for Academic Contexts6 Ethical Codes and Responsibility; PART 2 Focusing on People in Language Policy; 7 Cultivating an Ecology of Multilingualism in Schools; 8 English in Ethiopia: Making Space for the Individual in Language Policy; 9 Portraits of Language Activists in Indigenous Language Revitalization; 10 Refugees in Canada: On the Loss of Social Capital; PART 3 Personalizing the Public Space; 11 Linguistic Landscapes inside Multilingual Schools |
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12 "We Are Not Really a Mixed City"-A De-Jure Bilingual Linguistic Landscape: the Case of Jewish-Arab Mixed Cities in Israel13 Hebraization in the Palestinian Language Landscape in Israel; 14 Hebrew in the North American Linguistic Landscape: Materializing the Sacred; 15 Welcome: Synthetic Personalization and Commodification of Sociability in the Linguistic Landscape of Global Tourism; PART 4 Placing People within Communities and Cultures; 16 A Researcher's Auto-Socioanalysis: Making Space for the Personal |
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17 Understanding the Holocaust: A Personal History, Critical Literacy Analysis of a Gestapo File18 Language Experience Changes Language and Cognitive Ability: Implications for Social Policy; 19 Strategies for the Super-Multilingual in an Increasingly Global World; 20 Gender, Sexuality, and Multilingualism in the Language Classroom; 21 Examining Markers of Identity Construction in English Language Learning: Some Implications for Palestinian-Israeli and Jewish-Israeli Language Learners; 22 Integrational Linguistics and L2 Proficiency; About the Contributors; Index |
| Summary |
Addressing a wide range of issues in applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, and multilingualism, this volume focuses on language users, the 'people.' Making creative connections between existing scholarship in language policy and contemporary theory and research in other social sciences, authors from around the world offer new critical perspectives for analyzing language phenomena and language theories, suggesting new meeting points among language users and language policy makers, norms, and traditions in diverse cultural, geographical, and historical contexts. Identifying and expanding on p |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
English language -- Study and teaching -- Foreign speakers.
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FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Multi-Language Phrasebooks.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Alphabets & Writing Systems.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar & Punctuation.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- General.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Readers.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Spelling.
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English language -- Study and teaching -- Foreign speakers
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Inbar-Lourie, Ofra
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Tannenbaum, Michal
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| ISBN |
9781134658657 |
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1134658656 |
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0415711894 |
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9780415711890 |
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0415711908 |
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9780415711906 |
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9781315884288 |
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1315884283 |
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