Introduction -- Discourse analysis and its discontents -- Disadvantage: a brief overview -- Disadvantage: the genetic case -- Disadvantage: the environmental case -- The language debate -- The persistence of linguistic deficit -- Evaluative reactions to the language of disadvantage --Black English as Ebonics -- "Foreign" languages in the classroom -- Multiculturalism and multicultural education -- Bilingualism: a very brief overview -- Bilingual education -- A concluding statement
Summary
"Provides comprehensive coverage of language contact in classroom settings. This work presents an analysis of the sources and implications of social disadvantage, since the nonstandard dialects that children bring with them to school - and the unfavourable perceptions of these dialects - have traditionally given rise to educational difficulties."--FROM PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION
