Forbidden Language

Author : Patricia Gándara
Publisher : Teachers College Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807750469
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Forbidden Language written by Patricia Gándara and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2010-01-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pulling together the most up-to-date research on the effects of restrictive language policies, this timely volume focuses on what we know about the actual outcomes for students and teachers in California, Arizona, and Massachusetts—states where these policies have been adopted. Prominent legal experts in bilingual education analyze these policies and specifically consider whether the new data undermine their legal viability. Other prominent contributors examine alternative policies and how these have fared. Finally, Patricia Gándara, Daniel Losen, and Gary Orfield suggest how better policies, which rely on empirical research, might be constructed. This timely volume: Features contributions from well-known educators and scholars in the instruction of English learners. Includes an overview of English learners in the United States and a brief history of the policies that have guided their instruction. Analyzes the current research on teaching English learners in order to determine the most effective instructional strategies.

Author : Douglas C. Baynton
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226039684
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Forbidden Signs written by Douglas C. Baynton and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1998-04-22 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forbidden Signs explores American culture from the mid-nineteenth century to 1920 through the lens of one striking episode: the campaign led by Alexander Graham Bell and other prominent Americans to suppress the use of sign language among deaf people. The ensuing debate over sign language invoked such fundamental questions as what distinguished Americans from non-Americans, civilized people from "savages," humans from animals, men from women, the natural from the unnatural, and the normal from the abnormal. An advocate of the return to sign language, Baynton found that although the grounds of the debate have shifted, educators still base decisions on many of the same metaphors and images that led to the misguided efforts to eradicate sign language. "Baynton's brilliant and detailed history, Forbidden Signs, reminds us that debates over the use of dialects or languages are really the linguistic tip of a mostly submerged argument about power, social control, nationalism, who has the right to speak and who has the right to control modes of speech."—Lennard J. Davis, The Nation "Forbidden Signs is replete with good things."—Hugh Kenner, New York Times Book Review

Author : Keith Allan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139457608
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Forbidden Words written by Keith Allan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-10-05 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many words and expressions are viewed as 'taboo', such as those used to describe sex, our bodies and their functions, and those used to insult other people. This 2006 book provides a fascinating insight into taboo language and its role in everyday life. It looks at the ways we use language to be polite or impolite, politically correct or offensive, depending on whether we are 'sweet-talking', 'straight-talking' or being deliberately rude. Using a range of colourful examples, it shows how we use language playfully and figuratively in order to swear, to insult, and also to be politically correct, and what our motivations are for doing so. It goes on to examine the differences between institutionalized censorship and the ways individuals censor their own language. Lively and revealing, Forbidden Words will fascinate anyone who is interested in how and why we use and avoid taboos in daily conversation.

Author : Richard A. Spears
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
ISBN 13 : 9780844251493
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Forbidden American English written by Richard A. Spears and published by McGraw-Hill Companies. This book was released on 1990 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compilation of words and expressions considered to be derogatory or taboo, including racial and national slurs and sexual expressions.

Author : Melanie Ansley
Publisher : Book of Theo
ISBN 13 : 9780998089621
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theo and the Forbidden Language written by Melanie Ansley and published by Book of Theo. This book was released on 2021-05-27 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rabbit with the taboo ability to read and write must team with an axe-wielding bear to save their fellow animals from the human empire. A fantasy adventure about friendship, courage, and the power of the written word.

Author : James Henry Harris
Publisher : Cascade Books
ISBN 13 : 9781498215602
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Forbidden Word written by James Henry Harris and published by Cascade Books. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Description: This book is about a Black man's reading of Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn for the first time while in graduate school. The story captures his emotional experience with Twain's use of the racial epithet "nigger" more than 211 times throughout the book. The visceral response to hearing the word verbalized by whites with Twain's permission, regardless of irony or satire, is a central theme of this personal history/memoir. The situation is a seminar in Richmond, Virginia, the former capital of the Confederacy, where the Civil War is still being fought on many levels. The story is the complication of race as a topic of public discussion and the role the word nigger plays in postmodern society especially among Blacks and Hip-Hop music. The use of the word is a sign of evil both historically and culturally and cannot be flipped in a way that erases its history and meaning. It is also a reflection on language and culture. Endorsements: "Harris has written a courageous memoir that confronts the long debate over Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and the use of the n-word. Marshaling critics from Hegel to bell hooks, and calling on a family history of resistance, Harris challenges his instructor and classmates, and in turn inspires his readers to redress the long history of American racism and white supremacy bound up with the epithet." --Mark Sanders, Professor of English, Emory University "Harris combines the passion and power of personal experience with a masterful display of historical and literary criticism, and the finished product is a book that goes beyond Twain's painfully derogatory stereotypes, racial epithets, and the persistent myths to expose race as the enduring and central dilemma of the American experience. In compelling terms, Harris helps us understand why our claims of 'a post-racial society' remain open to serious question and debate." --Lewis V. Baldwin, Professor of Religious Studies, Vanderbilt University "The Forbidden Word is an elegant, heartfelt rumination on America's crucible of race. Engaging, beautifully crafted, and analytically powerful, it masterfully employs Twain's Huck Finn as both a literal and figurative representation of the nation's never-ending racial drama. By blending the narrative voice of a memoirist and the sharp insights of a true scholar, Harris achieves a remarkable literary triumph." --Tim Wise, author of White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son

Author : Renato Tomei
Publisher : Morlacchi Editore
ISBN 13 : 886074248X
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Forbidden Fruits written by Renato Tomei and published by Morlacchi Editore. This book was released on 2008 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Amy J. Heineke
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
ISBN 13 : 1783096438
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Restrictive Language Policy in Practice written by Amy J. Heineke and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the most restrictive language policy context in the United States, Arizona’s monolingual and prescriptive approach to teaching English learners continues to capture international attention. More than five school years after initial implementation, this study uses qualitative data from the individuals doing the policy work to provide a holistic picture of the complexities and intricacies of Arizona’s language policy in practice. Drawing on the varied perspectives of teachers, leaders, administrators, teacher-educators, lawmakers and community activists, the book examines the lived experiences of those involved in Arizona’s language policy on a daily basis, highlighting the importance of local perspectives and experiences as well as the need to prepare and professionalize teachers of English learners.

Author : Katherine Schuster
Publisher : IAP
ISBN 13 : 1607528096
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language of the Land written by Katherine Schuster and published by IAP. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea for this volume arose out of a need for a treatment of the interplay between language and ethnonationalism within both formal and nonformal educational settings. In no way intended to be exhaustive in scope, the contents give the reader a critical overview of issues related to language, cultural identity formation, and ethnonationalism. The chapters within this work deal with the effects of different language groups with differing amounts of power within society coming into contact with one another, and provide insight into how language is both utilized by and affected by processes such as colonialism, post-colonialism, acculturation, and ethnonationalism. Language is central to culture—indeed houses cultural understandings and allows generational transfer of key aspects of a group’s heritage.

Author : George Philip Krapp
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern English written by George Philip Krapp and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: