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YOu might also be interested in a paper of mine that explores the terrain
of Ed Lx as practiced at Penn, available in the two following publications:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">Hornberger, N. H. (2001). Educational linguistics
as a field: A view from Penn's program as it approaches its 25th anniversary.
In R. L. Cooper & E. Shohamy & J. Walters (Eds.), New Perspectives
and Issues in Educational Language Policy: A Festschrift for Bernard Dov
Spolsky (pp. 271-296). Philadelphia: John Benjamins.</blockquote>
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Hornberger, N. H. (2001). Educational linguistics as a field: A view from
Penn's program on the occasion of its 25th anniversary. Working Papers in
Educational Linguistics, 17(1-2), 1-26.</blockquote>
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Bernard Spolsky wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">The field is laid out in Concise Encyclopedia of Educational Linguistics<br><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.elsevier.nl/inca/publications/store/6/0/1/5/1/6/index.htt">http://www.elsevier.nl/inca/publications/store/6/0/1/5/1/6/index.htt</a><br><br> -----Original Message-----<br>From: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:owner-lgpolicy-list@ccat.sas.upenn.edu">owner-lgpolicy-list@ccat.sas.upenn.edu</a><br>[<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:owner-lgpolicy-list@ccat.sas.upenn.edu">mailto:owner-lgpolicy-list@ccat.sas.upenn.edu</a>]On Behalf Of Ronald Kephart<br>Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 3:41 PM<br>To: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:lgpolicy-list@ccat.sas.upenn.edu">lgpolicy-list@ccat.sas.upenn.edu</a><br>Subject: Re: International Network for Educational Linguistics as a<br>Discipline (INFELAD)<br><br><br></pre>
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<pre wrap="">Would you be interested in joining an International Network for<br>Educational Linguistics as a Discipline (INFELAD)?<br></pre>
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<pre wrap=""><!----><br>I think I might, but I have a question. Do people see Educational<br>Linguistics as primarily about language teaching/learning, or is<br>there room for other issues?<br><br>I have in mind especially the lack of science-based knowledge about<br>language that I see, every semester, in the students in my intro to<br>linguistics class. They've spent 12 years in things like "language<br>arts," but all they know is whether to write its or it's, or that<br>"double negatives make a positive," or that AAVE is "just slang." In<br>other words, most of what they know is either about the writing<br>system or simply fantasy. Is this a forum to tackle issues like this?<br><br>Ronald Kephart<br>Associate Professor<br>English and Foreign Languages<br>University of North Florida<br>Jacksonville, FL USA<br><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.unf.edu/~rkephart/">http://www.unf.edu/~rkephart/</a><br><br><br></pre>
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Nancy H. Hornberger, Ph.D.
Professor
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.learning.gse.upenn.edu/~hornberg/">http://www.learning.gse.upenn.edu/~hornberg/</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.gse.upenn.edu/faculty/hornberger.html">http://www.gse.upenn.edu/faculty/hornberger.html</a></pre>
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