Language in Our Time Bilingual Education and Official English, Ebonics and Standard English, Immigration and the Unz Initiative Edited by James E. Alatis, Ai-Hui Tan $39.95 ISBN: 9780878401321 (0878401326) ISSN: 01867207 Book (Paperback) 6 x 9 464 pages October 2001 Quantity:

"[A] valuable compendium of knowledge. . . .the volume provides a current, accessible, welcome, and well-tempered picture of contemporary scholarship." —Modern Language Journal Marking the return -after a two-year hiatus- of this annual collection of essays on linguistics and language education, the 1999 volume speaks to the most pressing social issues of our time. More than thirty contributors from around the world take up longstanding debates about language diversity, language standardization, and language policy. They tackle such controversial issues as the Official English movement, bilingual education, and ideological struggles over African American Vernacular English. Contributors: Wendy D. Bokhorst-Heng, Roger Bowers, Anna Uhl Chamot, James R. Child, Donna Christian, Colleen Cotter, Madeline Ehrman, Ralph W. Fasold, Reinhold Freudenstein, Leanne Hinton, Frederick H. Jackson, Marsha A. Kaplan, Stephen D. Krashen, Pardee Lowe, Jr., Beth A. Mackey, Margaret E. Malone, Tom McArthur, Salikoko Mufwene, Denise E. Murray, Anne Pakir, Rosalie Pendalino Porter, John A. Rassias, David L. Red, Ronald Scollon, Shaligram Shukla, Roger W. Shuy, Bernard Spolsky, Eric J. Stone, Edwin Thumboo, G. Richard Tucker, Walt Wolfram. James E. Alatis is dean emeritus of the School of Languages and Linguistics at Georgetown University. Ai-Hui Tan is the coordinator of the Georgetown Round Table on Languages and Linguistics.

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