Language Policy and Pedagogy: Essays in Honor of A. Ronald WaltonRichard D. Lambert, Elana Goldberg Shohamy In this memorial volume for A. Ronald Walton, cutting-edge scholars interrelate two normally separate domains: the formation of language policy and the improvement of language teaching. Bernard Spolsky, Elana Shohamy, Joshua Fishman, and Kees de Bot address theoretical aspects of national language policy. John Trim relates the historical development of the Council of Europe's international language policy. Richard Lambert, Ronald Walton, Richard Brecht, and Xueying Wang deal with structural issues in language instruction in the United States. Eleanor Jorden, Galal Walker, Myriam Met, and Gilbert Merkx discuss the special problems of providing instruction in the non-Western languages. And Michael Long, Ross Steele, Ralph Ginsberg and Laura Miller are concerned with specific pedagogical issues: task-based language teaching, the role of culture in language instruction, and what is learned during study abroad. These articles stand both as definitive statements on their individual topics and, taken together, as a fresh amalgamation of policy and pedagogy. |
Contents
The Status Agenda in Corpus Planning | 43 |
The Winds of Change in Foreign Language Instruction | 81 |
The Future of Language Learning in the United | 111 |
An Early Start for Foreign Languages but Not English in | 129 |
Tapping the National Heritage Language | 161 |
Focus on Form in TaskBased Language Teaching | 179 |
Language Learning and Intercultural Competence | 193 |
Acquired Culture in the Japanese Language Classroom | 207 |
Learning to Participate in Another Culture | 221 |
Activities of Students during Study Abroad | 237 |
Contributors | 261 |
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