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Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (1999)
ImprintWashington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, 2001.
Descriptionvii, 431 pages : portrait ; 23 cm.
Note:Introduction to the volume / James E. Alatis -- Adults learning to read in a second script: What we've learned / David L. Red -- Trends in Peace Corps volunteer language proficiency / Margaret E. Malone -- Evidence for the greater ease of use of the ILR language skill level descriptions for speaking / Pardee Lowe, Jr. -- Bringing learning strategies to the student: The FSI language learning consultation service / Madeline Ehrman -- Can you beat guessing in multiple-choice testing? / Beth A. Mackey -- Lessons learned from fifty years of theory and practice in government language teaching / Frederick H. Jackson, Marsha A. Kaplan -- Analysis of texts and critique of judgment / James R. Child -- Paved with good intentions: Words of advice for the rocky road of bureaucratic language / Roger W. Shuy -- Bilingual education: Arguments for and (bogus) arguments against / Stephen D. Krashen -- Educating English language learners in U.S. schools: Agenda for a new millennium / Rosalie Pedalino Porter -- The Official English movement and bilingual education reform / Eric J. Stone -- Literacy development in high school English language learners / Anna Uhl Chamot -- Languages in Israel: Policy, practice, and ideology / Bernard Spolsky -- Language and policy issues in the education of immigrant students / Donna Christian -- The pragmatic implications of "boilerplate" in news coverage of California ballot initiative controversies / Colleen Cotter -- Involuntary language loss among immigrants: Asian-American linguistic autobiographies / Leanne Hinton.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references.
