Bøger af David Corson

This volume examines the impact that the life histories of people can have on their vocabulary. The book shows how discursive relations outside education position people through their vocabularies. Some are prepared for easy entry into life-long prospects of privilege and educational success, while others are denied entry. It argues that education fails to take account of the fact that many children's discursive relations, before and outside schools, are inconsistent with the kinds of lexicosemantic demands that present-day schools and their high-status culture of literacy place upon them - often unnecessarily. Partly as a result of this, many students - both native speakers and those whose second language is English - are almost guaranteed to fail in the middle levels of contemporary education before they have a chance to show that they can succeed.

This is the second volume of a series of eight volumes together entitled Encyclopedia of Language and Education. It attempts to overview an area which has recently emerged, and draws on some 25 state-of-the-art reviews of current concerns in the study of literacy prepared by leading writers and researchers.

Graduate-level text for students of language & linguistics, and students of education; provides a current & well-informed overview and theoretical perspective on the issue of equitable educational treatment for students from diverse language backgrounds.

This introductory text for students of linguistics, language and education provides background, as well as up-to-date information and resources, that beginning researchers need for studying language diversity and education.

This text offers a practical approach to dealing with language problems confronting schools in contexts of cultural and linguistic diversity. Written for those engaged in policy making in schools in English-speaking societies, it has examples of language policies designed for real schools.