Language Policies and the Politics of Language Practices : Essays in Honour of Sjaak Kroon /

This edited volume consists of chapters celebrating the career of scholar Sjaak Kroon, who has produced ground-breaking work in the field of ethnography of education, immigrant minority language teaching and language politics. The chapters cover the use of immigrant minority languages in education a...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors:	Spotti, Massimiliano (Editor), Swanenberg, Jos (Editor), Blommaert, Jan (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2021.
Edition:	1st ed. 2021.
Series:	Language Policy, 28
Subjects:	Education and state. Language policy. Language and languages > Study and teaching. Educational Policy and Politics. Language Policy and Planning. Language Education. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction to Language Policies and the Politics of Language Practices
2. Sociolinguistic re-stratification in the online-offline nexus: Trump's viral errors
3. L2 learning while doing togetherness on You Tube: Exploring the role of a socio-technological platform in an asylum seeking centre
4. Colonial and Missionary Contributions in Tigrinya Reading Instruction in Eritrea
5. The Cuban literacy programme in Timor-Leste: 'magic' on the blackboard
6. Assessing Multilingualism at School
7. Creating Quarter for Doing Things with Language
8. Teachers in Training and the Policing of Language Variation
9. Preach or practise? Preach and practice! Sjaak Kroon's contributions to language practices and models for language policy
10. Afterword: The Kroonian paradigm: Sjaak Kroon's distinctive style of language work.