International Network for Educational Linguistics as a Discipline (INFELAD)

[Nancy Hornberger]

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:

> 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.

>
> 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.



Bernard Spolsky wrote:

>The field is laid out in Concise Encyclopedia of Educational Linguistics
>http://www.elsevier.nl/inca/publications/store/6/0/1/5/1/6/index.htt
>
> -----Original Message-----
>From: owner-lgpolicy-list at ccat.sas.upenn.edu
>[mailto:owner-lgpolicy-list at ccat.sas.upenn.edu]On Behalf Of Ronald Kephart
>Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 3:41 PM
>To: lgpolicy-list at ccat.sas.upenn.edu
>Subject: Re: International Network for Educational Linguistics as a
>Discipline (INFELAD)
>
>
>>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/
>
>

--
Nancy H. Hornberger, Ph.D.
Professor

http://www.learning.gse.upenn.edu/~hornberg/
http://www.gse.upenn.edu/faculty/hornberger.html


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