Challenges for Language Education and Policy : Making Space for People (Paperback)

Preface: Dear Elana,Bernard Spolsky Introduction: A Portrait of the Researcher in a Never-Ending Journey, Ofra Inbar and Michal Tannenbaum Chapter 1: Language Tests for Residency and Citizenship and the Conferring of Individuality,Tim McNamara, Kamran Khan, and Kellie Frost Chapter 2: Setting Standards for Multilingual Curricula to Teach and Test Foreign Languages,Bessie Dendrinos and Voula Gotsoulia Chapter 3: In the Name of the CEFR: Individuals and Standards,Monica Barni Chapter 4: Acknowledging the Diversity of the Language Learner Population in Australia: Towards Context-Sensitive Language Standards,Catherine Anne Elder Chapter 5: Students’ Voices: The Challenge of Measuring Speaking for Academic Contexts,Lindsay Brooks and Merrill Swain Chapter 6: Ethical Codes and Responsibility,Alan Davies Chapter 7: Cultivating an Ecology of Multilingualism in Schools,Ofelia Garcia and Kate Menken Chapter 8: English in Ethiopia: Making Space for the Individual in Language Policy,Elizabeth Lanza and Hirut Woldemariam Chapter 9: Portraits of Language Activists in Indigenous Language Revitalization,Nancy H. Hornberger Chapter 10: Refugees in Canada: On the Loss of Social Capital,Thomas Ricento Chapter 11: Linguistic Landscapes Inside Multilingual Schools,Durk Gorter and Jasone Cenoz Chapter 12: “We Are Not Really a Mixed City”? A De-Jure Bilingual Linguistic Landscape ? The Case of Jewish-Arab Mixed Cities in Israel,Dafna Yitzhaki and Theodorus du Plessis Chapter 13: Hebraization in the Palestinian Language Landscape in Israel,Muhammad Amara Chapter 14: Hebrew in the North American Linguistic Landscape: Materializing the Sacred,Sharon Avni Chapter 15: Welcome: Synthetic Personalization and Commodification of Sociability in the Linguistic Landscape of Global Tourism,Adam Jaworski Chapter 16: A Researcher’s Auto-Socioanalysis: Making Space for the Personal,Claire Kramsch Chapter 17: Understanding the Holocaust: A Personal History, Critical Literacy Analysis of a Gestapo File,David I. Hanauer Chapter 18: Language Experience Changes Language and Cognitive Ability: Implications for Social Policy,Ellen Bialystok Chapter 19: Strategies for the Super-Multilingual in an Increasingly Global World,Andrew D. Cohen Chapter 20: Gender, Sexuality and Multilingualism in the Language Classroom,Lyn Wright Fogle and Kendall A. King Chapter 21: Examining Markers of Identity Construction in English Language Learning: Some Implications for Palestinian-Israeli and Jewish-Israeli Language Learners,Julia Schlam Salman, Elite Olshtain, and Zvi Bekerman Chapter 22: Integrational Linguistics and L2 Proficiency,James P. Lantolf About the Contributors