Language Socialization: Encyclopedia of Language and Education Volume 8 - Brossura

 
9789048194667: Language Socialization: Encyclopedia of Language and Education Volume 8

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This volume offers an overview of the wide range of methodological approaches to language and education across the axes of micro and macro-linguistic and social levels of analysis, as well as the multiple connections between them. This is a unique resource.

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Patricia Duff is Professor of Language and Literacy Education at the University of British Columbia. During her career she has taught English in Korea, Japan, Canada and USA and applied linguistics in China. Nancy H. Hornberger is Professor of Education and Director of Educational Linguistics at the Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania.

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This volume addresses language socialization, the research area that focuses on the social, cultural and interactional contexts in which language and other knowledge are learned, both formally and informally.The volume offers: •An important 30-year retrospective of the roots and development of language socialization•Insights from a wide range of linguistic, ethnic, and geographical regions of the world•Views on language socialization as a lifelong process that takes place in various and multiple settings and over first and second/foreign languages•Approaches from different, complementary traditions and disciplinesThis is one of ten volumes of the Encyclopedia of Language and Education published by Springer. The Encyclopedia bears testimony to the dynamism and evolution of the language and education field, as it confronts the ever-burgeoning and irrepressible linguistic diversity and ongoing pressures and expectations placed on education around the world.

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