International perspectives on bilingual education : policy, practice, and controversy

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Foreword (Terrence Wiley, Arizona State University) Introduction SECTION 1: POLICY 1. Language Minority Education in the United States: Power and Policy (John E. Petrovic, The University of Alabama) 2. Language Minority Rights and Educational Policy in Canada (Thomas Ricento and Andreea Cervatiuc, University of Calgary) 3. Education Policy and Language Shift in Guatemala (Ivonne Heinze Balcazar, California State University - Dominguez Hills) SECTION 2: PRACTICE 4. Transitions to Biliteracy: Creating Positive Academic Trajectories for Emerging Bilinguals in the United States (Kathy Escamilla and Susan Hopewell, University of Colorado) 5. Bilingualism and Biliteracy in India: Implications for Education (Prema K. S. Rao, Jayashree C. Shanbal, Sarika Khurana, All India Institute of Speech and Hearing) 6. Making Choices for Sustainable Social Plurilingualism: Some Reflections from the Catalan Language Area (F. Xavier Vila i Moreno, Universitat de Barcelona/Institut d'Estudis Catalans) SECTION 3: CONTROVERSY 7. Reorienting Language-as-Resource (Richard Ruiz, University of Arizona) 8. The Role of Language in Theories of Academic Failure for Linguistic Minorities (Jeff MacSwan and Kellie Rolstad, Arizona State University) 9. A Postliberal Critique of Language Rights: Toward a Politics of Language for a Linguistics of Contact (Christopher Stroud, University of the Western Cape).

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