International Network for Educational Linguistics as aDiscip

[Jane Freeland]

I agree with both these responses - would part of what the network did be to
examine what determines and dominates approaches to language in education;
i.e. such rigidities as Ronald Kephart highlights, and the need for more
socially based approaches to literacy(ies)?
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> I think that there must be room for other aspects of applied linguistics
such as sociolinguistic or psycholinguistic issues or issues of language
policy and planning.
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> Ronald Kephart wrote:
> >>Would you be interested in joining an International Network for
>>Educational Linguistics as a Discipline (INFELAD)?
> >
> >I think I might, but I have a question. Do people see Educational
>Linguistics as primarily about language teaching/learning, or is >there
room for other issues?
> >
> >I have in mind especially the lack of science-based knowledge about
>language that I see, every semester, in the students in my intro to
>linguistics class. They've spent 12 years in things like "language >arts,"
but all they know is whether to write its or it's, or that >"double
negatives make a positive," or that AAVE is "just slang." In >other words,
most of what they know is either about the writing >system or simply
fantasy. Is this a forum to tackle issues like this?
> >
> >Ronald Kephart
> >Associate Professor
> >English and Foreign Languages
> >University of North Florida
> >Jacksonville, FL USA
> >http://www.unf.edu/~rkephart/
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