Channel View Publications: 585 books
Language Policy Processes and Consequences
Arizona Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
This book traces the recent socio-historical trajectory of educational language policy in Arizona, the state with the most restrictive English-only implementation in the US. Chapters, each representing a case study of policy-making in the state, include:
• an overview and background of the...
Teaching Children Online
A Conversation-based Approach
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2018
What does best practice in online education look like? How can educators make use of the affordances offered by online environments to bring out the best in the children they teach? These questions are answered in this new textbook, written with experienced teachers, novice educators and teacher educators...
Language Learner Autonomy
Theory, Practice and Research
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
This is the first book on language learner autonomy to combine comprehensive accounts of classroom practice with empirical and case-study research and a wide-ranging engagement with applied linguistic and pedagogical theory. It provides a detailed description of an autonomy classroom in action, focusing...
Restrictive Language Policy in Practice
English Learners in Arizona
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
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...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2018
In the last 20 years dual language education programs have increased in number and expanded in range. Whereas once they were predominantly focused at the elementary level, they now span from pre-K through to high school. This book examines the key attributes of successful dual language programs, as...
Socializing Identities through Speech Style
Learners of Japanese as a Foreign Language
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2008
Drawing on the perspective of language socialization and a theory of indexicality, this book explores ways in which learners of Japanese as a foreign language and their Japanese host families socialize their identities through style shift between the masu and plain forms in a homestay context. Going...
Expanding the Linguistic Landscape
Linguistic Diversity, Multimodality and the Use of Space as a Semiotic Resource
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2018
This book provides a forum for theoretical, methodological and empirical contributions to research on language(s), multimodality and public space, which will advance new ways of understanding the sociocultural, ideological and historical role of communication practices and experienced lives in a globalised...
Grammatical Profiles
Further Languages of LARSP
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2019
This book brings together 12 previously unpublished language profiles based on the original Language Assessment, Remediation and Screening Procedure (LARSP). The languages featured are: Bangla, Croatian, Colombian Spanish, Inuktitut, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Swahili, Tamil...
Connecting School and the Multilingual Home
Theory and Practice for Rural Educators
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2019
This book examines the educational gaps that multilingual students in rural communities experience. It argues that responsive, successful relationships between schools and multilingual families are a crucial aspect of all educators’ work and that no single strategy will work for all families. Rural...
Early Trilingualism
A Focus on Questions
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2006
The book describes how a trilingual child in the Basque Country, where Spanish and Basque are the languages of the community, is able to successfully acquire English at home through interaction with her mother. It focuses on her acquisition of the form and function of English questions.
Making Signs, Translanguaging Ethnographies
Exploring Urban, Rural and Educational Spaces
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2018
This book* *is the beginning of a conversation across Social Semiotics, Translanguaging, Complexity Theory and Radical Sociolinguistics. In its explorations of meaning, multimodality, communication and emerging language practices, the book includes theoretical and empirical chapters that move toward an...