About "Encyclopedia of Language and Education"
In its second, fully revised edition, the Encyclopedia of Language and Education presents the newest developments in the field of language teaching and learning in the age of globalization. Series Editor Nancy Hornberger has brought together research and scholarly contributions from over 250 international scholars, including more than two dozen Penn GSE faculty and alumni.
A necessary reference set for every university and college library in the world that serves a faculty or school of education, the Encyclopedia aims to speak to a multinational readership and to do so as unambiguously as possible. Because each book-size volume deals with a discrete and important subject in language and education, these state-of-the-art volumes also offer highly authoritative course textbooks in the areas suggested by their titles.
Conributors hail from all continents of our globe and from 41 countries; they represent a great diversity of linguistic, cultural, and disciplinary traditions. For all that, what is most impressive about the contributions gathered here is the unity of purpose and outlook they express with regard to the central role of language as both vehicle and mediator of educational processes and to the need for continued and deepening research into the limits and possibilities that implies.
Each volume contains about 20-30 reviews. For some topics, teams of contributors have worked to produce a single review. Each review has about 4000 words of text and follows a similar structure. Most contributors give coverage of early developments in their topic, major contributions, work in progress, problems and difficulties, and future directions. The text of each review is followed by a reference list containing about 30 key references mentioned in the text.
Volume titles are Language Policy and Political Issues in Education; Literacy; Discourse and Education; Second and Foreign Language Education; Bilingual Education; Knowledge about Language; Language Testing and Assessment; Language Socialization; Ecology of Language; and Research Methods in Language and Education.
Publication information
Springer
November 2007
ISBN: 978-0-387-32875-1
Hardcover, $1,500.00 ORDER
10 volumes/4,176 pages