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        Front Matter

 
      1 Introduction to the volume
James E. Alatis, Georgetown University

 
      2 Adults learning to read in a second script : What we’ve learned
David L. Red, Foreign Service Institute, U.S. Department of State

 
      3 Trends in Peace Corps volunteer language proficiency
Margaret E. Malone, Peace Corps
Washington, D.C.


 
      4 Evidence for the greater ease of use of the ILR language skill level descriptions for speaking
Pardee Lowe, Jr., National Cryptologic School

 
      5 Bringing learning strategies to the student : The FSI language learning consultation service
Madeline Ehrman, Foreign Service Institute, U.S. Department of State

 
      6 Can you beat guessing in multiple-choice testing?
Beth A. Mackey, Department of Defense

 
      7 Lessons learned from fifty years of theory and practice in government language teaching
Frederick H. Jackson and Marsha A. Kaplan,
Foreign Service Institute, U.S. Department of State


 
      8 Analysis of texts and critique of judgment
James R. Child, National Security Agency, Department of Defense

 
      9 Paved with good intentions : Words of advice for the rocky road of bureaucratic language
Roger W. Shuy, Georgetown University

 
      10 Bilingual education : Arguments for and (bogus) arguments against
Stephen D. Krashen, University of Southern California

 
      11 Educating English language learners in U.S. schools : Agenda for a new millennium
Rosalie Pedalino Porter, Institute for Research in English Acquisition and Development (READ)

 
      12 The Official English movement and bilingual education reform
Eric J. Stone, U.S. ENGLISH Foundation

 
      13 English language learners
Anna Uhl Chamot, The George Washington University
Literacy development in high school


 
      14 Languages in Israel : Policy, practice, and ideology
Bernard Spolsky, Bar-Ilan University

 
      15 Language and policy issues in the education of immigrant students
Donna Christian, Center for Applied Linguistics

 
      16 The pragmatic implications of “boilerplate”in news coverage of California ballot initiative controversies
Colleen Cotter, Georgetown University

 
      17 Involuntary language loss among Immigrants : Asian-American linguistic autobiographies
Leanne Hinton, University of California at Berkeley

 
      18 Ebonics and standard English in the classroom : Some issues
Salikoko S. Mufwene, University of Chicago

 
      19 Ebonic need not be English
Ralph W. Fasold, Georgetown University

 
      20 Whose “standard”? What the Ebonics debate tells us about language, power, and pedagogy
Denise E. Murray, Macquarie University

 
      21 From definition to policy : The ideological struggle of African-American English
Walt Wolfram, North Carolina State University

 
      22 South Asian bilingualism : Hindi and Bhojpuri
Shaligram Shukla, Georgetown University

 
      23 Gods, demi-gods, heroes, anti-heroes, fallen angels, and fallen arches
John A. Rassias, Dartmouth College

 
      24 A global perspective on bilingualism and bilingual education
G. Richard Tucker, Carnegie Mellon University

 
      25 Bilingual education with English as an official language : Sociocultural implications
Anne Pakir, National University of Singapore

 
      26 Bilingualism, language policy, and the European Union
Reinhold Freudenstein, Philipps-Universit�t, Marburg

 
      27 Bilingual education and the dialectics of national integration
Wendy D. Bokhorst-Heng, American University

 
      28 The sweet breath of words : Language as nuance in Diaspora creativity
Edwin Thumboo, National University of Singapore

 
      29 What in the world is the World of Language?
Roger Bowers, The World of Language, London

 
      30 World or International or Global English—and what is it anyway?
Tom McArthur, English Today, Cambridge University Press

 
      31 Multilingualism and intellectual property : Visual holophrastic discourse and the commodity/sign
Ronald Scollon, Georgetown University

 
      32 The removal of Arturo : An immigration case nightmare
Roger W. Shuy, Georgetown University

 
       
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