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    <font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">The argument would be a
      great deal easier if you had evidence that there's no vocabulary
      gap. And do you really want politicians to stop voting funds for
      educational projects? Here in the UK we'd welcome some of that
      cash. <br>
      <br>
      Dick<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 18/09/2015 14:29, Francis Hult
      wrote:<br>
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          <p>These are great pieces that summarize a substantial body of
            work.  Yet, the public discourse continues to be dominated
            by one perspective.  Are we missing something about making
            findings like the ones discussed in these forum pieces part
            of public and political consciousness?  Is it because we're
            talking to each other in journals instead of to citizens and
            politicians in accessible books and magazine articles?  Is
            it because Hart & Risley suggest an easy answer while we
            focus on nuances and complexity?  Is it because we haven't
            succeeded in making findings  easy for citizens,
            politicians, and educational leaders to latch onto and
            translate into programs? 
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        <p>This just seems like one of those issues on which we have a
          very strong foundation, but people are still choosing to build
          somewhere swampier.  Shouldn't we be able to attract more
          attention?</p>
        <p> </p>
        <p>Francis</p>
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          <div><font size="2" color="#000000" face="Arial">--</font></div>
          <div><font size="2" color="#000000" face="Arial">Francis M.
              Hult, PhD</font></div>
          <div><font size="2" face="Arial">Associate Professor</font></div>
          <font size="2">
            <div><font size="2" face="Arial">Centre for Languages and
                Literature</font></div>
            <div><font face="Arial">Lund University</font></div>
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            <div><font face="Arial">Web: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                  href="http://www.sol.lu.se/en/sol/staff/FrancisHult/">
                  <font color="#0066cc">http://www.sol.lu.se/en/sol/staff/FrancisHult/</font></a></font></div>
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            <div><font face="Arial">Editor, Educational Linguistics book
                series</font></div>
            <div><font color="#0066cc" face="Arial"><a
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            <div><font face="Arial">Co-editor, Contributions to the
                Sociology of Language book series</font></div>
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            <div><strong>New Book:</strong> <em>Research Methods in
                Language Policy and Planning: A Practical Guide</em></div>
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              color="#000000" face="Tahoma"><b>From:</b>
              <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:edling-bounces@bunner.geol.lu.se">edling-bounces@bunner.geol.lu.se</a>
              [<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:edling-bounces@bunner.geol.lu.se">edling-bounces@bunner.geol.lu.se</a>] on behalf of Peter
              Sayer [<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:peter.sayer@utsa.edu">peter.sayer@utsa.edu</a>]<br>
              <b>Sent:</b> Thursday, September 17, 2015 20:37<br>
              <b>To:</b> The Educational Linguistics List<br>
              <b>Subject:</b> Re: [Edling] Why Boosting Poor Children¹s
              Vocabulary Is Important for Public Health<br>
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            <div>Yeah I saw that forum piece when it came out – very
              cool!  </div>
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            <div>- peter.-</div>
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                on behalf of Eric Johnson <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
                  href="mailto:ejj@tricity.wsu.edu" target="_blank">ejj@tricity.wsu.edu</a>><br>
                <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Reply-To: </span>The
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                <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Date: </span>Wednesday,
                September 16, 2015 at 2:05 PM<br>
                <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To: </span>The
                Educational Linguistics List <<a
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                <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject: </span>Re:
                [Edling] Why Boosting Poor Children’s Vocabulary Is
                Important for Public Health<br>
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                    <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt;
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                        rgb(31,73,125)">You might also like this piece
                        (attached) that was recently published in the
                        Journal of Linguistic Anthropology.  Here’s the
                        cite in case the attachment doesn’t go through:</span></p>
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                        'Times New Roman',serif">Avineri, N., et al.
                        (2015). Invited forum: Bridging the "language
                        gap."
                        <i>Journal of Linguistic Anthropology</i>, <i>25</i>(1),
                        66-86.</span></p>
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                        </span></b><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt;
                          FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma,sans-serif; COLOR:
                          rgb(31,73,125)">Eric J. Johnson, Ph.D.</span></b><span
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                        Associate Professor of Bilingual/ESL Education<br>
                        Director of Outreach<br>
                        Washington State University Tri-Cities<br>
                        College of Education <br>
                        2710 Crimson Way<br>
                        Office 207W<br>
                        Richland, WA 99354<br>
                        (509) 372-7304<br>
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                          <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                            href="mailto:edling-bounces@bunner.geol.lu.se"
                            target="_blank">edling-bounces@bunner.geol.lu.se</a>
                          [<a moz-do-not-send="true"
                            href="mailto:edling-bounces@bunner.geol.lu.se"
                            target="_blank">mailto:edling-bounces@bunner.geol.lu.se</a>]
                          <b>On Behalf Of </b>Daniel Ginsberg<br>
                          <b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, September 16, 2015
                          7:42 AM<br>
                          <b>To:</b> The Educational Linguistics List<br>
                          <b>Subject:</b> Re: [Edling] Why Boosting Poor
                          Children’s Vocabulary Is Important for Public
                          Health</span></p>
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                        <p class="MsoNormal">I think they'd question the
                          empirical basis for that claim. It's usually
                          cited to Hart & Risley 1995, which as I
                          mentioned is a highly flawed piece of work.
                          Here's a thorough critical response to it:
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http://academic.evergreen.edu/curricular/med/LangPoor.pdf</a> There's a
                          lot there in a relatively short article, but
                          here's a key quote for this discussion:
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                        <p class="MsoNormal">Many educational
                          researchers and policy makers have generalized
                          the findings about the language and culture of
                          the 6 welfare families in Hart and Risley’s
                          study to all poor families. Yet, Hart and
                          Risley offer no compelling reason to believe
                          that the poor families they studied have much
                          in common with poor families in other
                          communities, or even in Kansas City for that
                          matter. The primary selection criterion for
                          participation in this study was socioeconomic
                          status; therefore, all the 6 welfare families
                          had in common was income, a willingness to
                          participate in the study, race (all the
                          welfare families were Black), and geography
                          (all lived in the Kansas City area). Families
                          living in poverty are, however, an ethnically,
                          linguistically, and racially diverse group (US
                          Census Bureau, 2003). Strong claims about the
                          language and culture of families living in
                          poverty based on a sample of 6 Black welfare
                          families living in Kansas City are
                          unwarranted. (p. 364)</p>
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                              <p class="MsoNormal">--<br>
                                Daniel Ginsberg<br>
                                Doctoral candidate, Linguistics<br>
                                Georgetown University</p>
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                                target="_blank"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://georgetown.academia.edu/DanielGinsberg">http://georgetown.academia.edu/DanielGinsberg</a></a></p>
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                        <p class="MsoNormal">On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at
                          4:22 AM, Richard Hudson <<a
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                            target="_blank"><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:r.hudson@ucl.ac.uk">r.hudson@ucl.ac.uk</a></a>>
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                          <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM:
                            12pt">Hello again Daniel. Thanks for the
                            interesting link. Would you agree that even
                            these researchers accept that poor children
                            reach school with fewer words than rich
                            children?<br>
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                            Dick Hudson <br>
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                                <p class="MsoNormal">On 15/09/2015
                                  21:51, Daniel Ginsberg wrote:</p>
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                                  <p class="MsoNormal">There was an
                                    invited forum in Jnl Ling Anth
                                    earlier this year that debunked a
                                    lot of this "word gap" discourse. I
                                    would love to see more public
                                    awareness of this, and less
                                    uncritical citation of the highly
                                    flawed Hart & Risley study.<br>
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                                          <p class="MsoNormal">--<br>
                                            Daniel Ginsberg<br>
                                            Doctoral candidate,
                                            Linguistics<br>
                                            Georgetown University</p>
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                                    <p class="MsoNormal">On Tue, Sep 15,
                                      2015 at 7:27 AM, Francis Hult <<a
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                                        <p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt;
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                                            black">[Moderator's note: I
                                            post this story because it
                                            relates to a discourse that
                                            is gaining public traction. 
                                            I am reminded of an article
                                            that was recently posted
                                            to Edling:</span></p>
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                                        <p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt;
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                                            Arial,sans-serif; COLOR:
                                            black">Johnson, E.J. (2015)
                                            Debunking the “language
                                            gap”.
                                            <em><span
                                                style="FONT-FAMILY:
                                                Arial,sans-serif">Journal
                                                for Multicultural
                                                Education, 9</span></em>(1),
                                            42-50.</span></p>
                                        <p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt;
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                                        <p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt;
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                                            black">I wonder what
                                            perspectives list members
                                            working in different
                                            research traditions have on
                                            this topic.  What additional
                                            research findings and ideas
                                            should we be getting out to
                                            the public and how?  FMH] </span></p>
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                                        <p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt;
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                                        <p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt;
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                                            black">The Atlantic</span></p>
                                        <p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt;
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                                        <p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt;
                                            FONT-FAMILY:
                                            Arial,sans-serif; COLOR:
                                            black">Why Boosting Poor
                                            Children’s Vocabulary Is
                                            Important for Public Health</span></p>
                                        <p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt;
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                                        <p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt;
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                                            black">Re­search sug­gests
                                            that poor chil­dren hear
                                            about 600 words per hour,
                                            while af­flu­ent chil­dren
                                            hear 2,000. By age 4, a poor
                                            child has a listen­ing
                                            vocab­u­lary of about 3,000
                                            words, while a wealth­i­er
                                            child wields a 20,000-word
                                            listen­ing vocab­u­lary. So
                                            it’s no sur­prise that poor
                                            chil­dren tend to enter
                                            kinder­garten already
                                            be­hind their wealth­i­er
                                            peers.
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                                        <p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt;
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                                            black">But it’s not just the
                                            poverty that holds them
                                            back—it’s the lack of words.
                                            In fact, the single-best
                                            pre­dict­or of a child’s
                                            aca­dem­ic suc­cess is not
                                            par­ent­al edu­ca­tion or
                                            so­cioeco­nom­ic status, but
                                            rather the qual­ity and
                                            quantity of the words that a
                                            baby hears dur­ing his or
                                            her first three years.</span></p>
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                                        <p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt;
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                                            <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v1/url?u=http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/09/georgias-plan-to-close-the-30-million-word-gap-for-kids/403903/&k=EWEYHnIvm0nsSxnW5y9VIw%3D%3D%0A&r=Cvavyy6y5l8AwEV%2BI2FsI3lqVU2gAbIkqBNSweUx9jU%3D%0A&m=z2Yv9e8aOdpgvZm0L6QjO7wKGfwkm2N5D8amr4pwK%2FA%3D%0A&s=0153ee7d02cb6a4baaba3d07c409f88e8045c29d9599d31e8d9eac8296f92518"
                                              target="_blank">http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/09/georgias-plan-to-close-the-30-million-word-gap-for-kids/403903/</a></span></p>
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