1. The re-normalization of language deficit ideologies -- 2. Language acquisition and diversity: (socio)linguistic and anthropological perspectives -- 3. What's past is prologue: language deficit research past and present / with Darrin Hetrick -- 4. Tracing the genealogies of language gap policies and programs -- 5. Normalization of deficit language ideologies -- 6. The language gap and education.
Summary:
"The Language Gap provides an accessible review of the language gap research, illuminating what we know and what we do not know about the language development of working and lower class youth. Written to offer a balanced look at existing literature, this text analyzes how language gap research is portrayed in the media and how debatable research findings have been portrayed as common sense facts. This text additionally analyzes how language gap research has impacted educational policies, and will be the first book-length overview addressing this area of rapidly growing interest"-- Provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.