Languages in America - A Pluralist View

This book is a response to the debate centring on the languages which immigrants bring with them and presents an argument for language diversity in the US. It tackles common misconceptions about second-language learning, reveals the nativist roots of the official-English movement and describes how other countries nurture language pluralism.

About the author

Susan J. Dicker was born in New York City of multilingual immigrant parents and, growing up, regularly heard Italian, Yiddish and Spanish at home. She holds Masters of Arts degrees in Spanish and TESOL and an Ed.D. in Applied Linguistics. She is Associate Professor of English at Hostos Community College, The City University of New York, in the ethnically diverse borough of the Bronx. Her articles on language pluralism appear in The Bilingual Review/La Revista Bilingüe, The Educational Forum, The Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, The Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, and Education and Society.

Product details

• Authors: Susan J Dicker, Susan J. Dicker
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.10.2003
• EAN: 9781853596513
• ISBN: 978-1-85359-651-3
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 231 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 612 g
• Series: Bilingual Education & Bilingua; Bilingual Education and Biling
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology