The Language Gap

Normalizing Deficit Ideologies
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-138-67400-4
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 122 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 342 g

The Language Gap provides an accessible review of the language gap research, illuminating what we know and what we do not know about the language development of youth from working and lower socioeconomic classes. Written to offer a balanced look at existing literature, this text analyzes how language gap research is portrayed in the media and how debatable research findings have been portrayed as common sense facts. This text additionally analyzes how language gap research has impacted educational policies, and will be the first book-length overview addressing this area of rapidly growing interest.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cassels Johnson, David

Johnson, Eric J.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: The Re-Normalization of Language Deficit Ideologies

Chapter 2: Language Acquisition and Diversity: (Socio)linguistic and Anthropological Perspectives

Chapter 3: What’s Past is Prologue: Language Deficit Research Past and Present - with Darrin Hetrick

Chapter 4: Tracing the Genealogies of Language Gap Policies and Programs

Chapter 5: Normalization of Deficit Language Ideologies

Chapter 6: The Language Gap and Education

Über Autor(innen)

David Cassels Johnson is Associate Professor of Multilingual Education at the University of Iowa and Visiting Professor of Applied Linguistics at Shanghai International Studies University. He holds a PhD (with distinction) in Educational Linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Language Policy (2013) and co-editor of Research Methods in Language Policy and Planning: A Practical Guide (2015, with Francis M. Hult).

Eric J. Johnson is Professor of Bilingual Education at Washington State University. He received his PhD in Sociocultural Anthropology from Arizona State University. His research focuses on ethnographic approaches to immigrant education programs and language policies in public schools. His publications span topics involving bilingual education, immigration, and family engagement.