Ethnolinguistic Diversity and Education: Language, Literacy and Culture

Book Overview

This volume provides an up-to-date review of sociolinguistic research and practice aimed at improving education for students who speak vernacular varieties of U.S. English, English-based Creole languages, and non-English languages, and presents socioculturally based approaches that acknowledge and build on the linguistic and cultural resources students bring into the school.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415802784
• ISBN13: 9780415802789
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.2"