Language Policy in Schools: A Resource for Teachers and Administrators [Hardcover]

Language Policy in Schools provides school administrators and teachers a practical approach for designing a language policy for their school and for dealing with the language issues that confront schools, particularly those operating in settings of linguistic and cultural diversity. It can be used as a text in teacher and administrator preparation programs, graduate programs, and in-service and professional development programs. Special features include:
* a clear, jargon-free writing style that invites careful reading;
* abundant examples that students of education everywhere can learn from--including samples of school language policies developed for real schools by real teacher-researchers;
* questions at the end of each chapter to highlight key points and stimulate informed discussion among pre-service and experienced teachers and administrators; and
* an up-to-date international and cross-cultural biography.
Contents: Preface. Language Policy in Schools. Critical Approaches to Language Planning for Social Justice. Fact Gathering for School Language Policies. Critical Policymaking. English as a First Language in the School Curriculum. Critical Language Awareness in School and Curriculum. ESL and Minority Languages in School and Curriculum. Concluding Summary: What a School Language Policy Might Contain.
Provides school administrators and teachers a practical approach for dealing with the language problems that confront modern schools in pluralist contexts. Incorporates up-to-date language plans from North American schools.

Language Policy in Schools (LPS) is a welcome update of Corson's earlier Language Policy Across the Curriculum and Oral Language Across the Curriculum texts. Unlike its predecessors, LPS has been adapted specifically to the North American schoolÓC