Announcement of new book from Multilingual Matters

[Harold Schiffman]

 ENGLISH LEARNERS LEFT BEHIND

                     Standardized Testing as Language Policy

                                 Kate Menken
(City University of New York, Queens College)



Focusing on the U.S. context, this important book is of relevance to
anyone thinking about the relationship between school assessment and
educational processes and practices throughout the world.  Ofelia
García, Teachers College, Columbia University

English Learners Left Behind is an outstanding, albeit troubling,
study of how language policy is made in the surreal world of American
education. As the first scholar to exhaustively document the
pernicious effects of high-stakes testing for ELL students, Kate
Menken has performed an invaluable service for both children and
educators. All U.S. politicians should be required to read her book –
and pass a test on it – before voting on misguided legislation like No
Child Left Behind. James Crawford, President, Institute for Language
and Education Policy

Key Features

 - shares the human stories of how recent testing policy is affecting
schools and the daily lives of teachers and students

- language policy in the US is examined from the top-down and the
bottom-up perspectives in both a practical and theoretical way

Description

This book explores how high-stakes tests mandated by No Child Left
Behind have become de facto language policy in U.S. schools, detailing
how testing has shaped curriculum and instruction, and the myriad ways
that tests are now a defining force in the daily lives of English
Language Learners and the educators who serve them.

Contents

Acknowledgement

PART I: Language Policy Context

1. Introduction; 2. Language Policy, Federal Education Legislation,
and English Language Learners in the United States;

3. The New York Case: The Local Implementation of a National Policy

PART II: Standardized Tests in Daily School Life

4. Tongue-Tied: The Linguistic Challenges that Standardized Tests Pose
for English Language Learners; 5. The Ones Left Behind: How
High-Stakes Tests Impact the Lives and Schooling Experiences of ELL
Students; 6. "Teaching to the Test" as Language Policy: The Focus on
Test Preparation in Curriculum and Instruction for ELLs

PART III: Expansion & Recommendations

7. Higher Expectations vs. Language as Liability: Why the Drawbacks of
Accountability Outweigh the Benefits for English Language Learners; 8.
High-Stakes Testing and Language Un-Planning: Theoretical Implications
of Testing as Language Policy; 9. Moving Forward: Embracing
Multilingual Language Policies from the Top-Down to the Bottom-Up

Author information

Kate Menken is an Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Teaching
English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) at Queens College of
the City University of New York (CUNY), and a Research Fellow at the
Research Institute for the Study of Language in an Urban Society at
the CUNY Graduate Center. Previously, she was a teacher of English as
a second language.

Bilingual Education & Bilingualism                         210 x 148
(A5)            c 15/02/2008               c 216pp

Hbk ISBN-13 9781853599989   £49.95 / US$99.95 / CAN$109.95

Pbk ISBN-13 9781853599972   £19.95 / US$39.95 / CAN$44.95

Ebook ISBN-13 9781853599996   £49.95 / US$99.95 / CAN$109.95

Subject (BIC): CFDM   Bilingualism and Multilingualism      CJC
Language Learning Level:     Postgraduate Research / Professional

Territory:  World

          Series  Bilingual Education & Bilingualism
                              Cat           110


                                                               100

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