Exploring LanguageGary Goshgarian Now in its tenth edition, this marketleading language reader continues to feature thoughtprovoking readings that explore the various interconnections between language and American society. For over 25 years, this engaging reader has challenged individuals to critically examine how language affects and constructs culture and how culture constructs and affects language. This tenth edition maintains the integrity of past editions, while reflecting the new and fascinating language issues that exist in today's culture. Provocative selections are organized around nine major language areas, and then broken into stimulating sub-themes like political correctness, hate speech, language and the presidency, and censorship on campus, inviting readers to debate current social and cultural issues that are inseparable from language. Individuals interested in studying how language affects and constructs culture and how culture constructs and affects language. |
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Gary Goshgarian. Let's Not Say Adiós to Bilingual Education Lourdes Rovira In June of 1998 , California voters passed Proposition 227 , terminating bilingual education in that state . Although supporters of bilingual education blamed ...
Gary Goshgarian. Let's Not Say Adiós to Bilingual Education Lourdes Rovira In June of 1998 , California voters passed Proposition 227 , terminating bilingual education in that state . Although supporters of bilingual education blamed ...
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... bilingual education and its goals and practices . Those who make for themselves a political agenda over the is- sue attack bilingual education as a failure based on a very limited knowledge of one specific bilingual - education model ...
... bilingual education and its goals and practices . Those who make for themselves a political agenda over the is- sue attack bilingual education as a failure based on a very limited knowledge of one specific bilingual - education model ...
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... bilingual education programs in favor of " English Only " programs . Many opponents of bilingual education express concerns that bilin- gual programs are ineffective , prevent mainstreaming children into the educational system , and put ...
... bilingual education programs in favor of " English Only " programs . Many opponents of bilingual education express concerns that bilin- gual programs are ineffective , prevent mainstreaming children into the educational system , and put ...
Contents
Thinking and Reading Critically | 1 |
Breaking Silences | 25 |
A Brief History of English | 32 |
Copyright | |
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