'[P]erhaps the best analysis of the English-only movement in the US and the ramifications worldwide of language policies favouring English ...It displays a dazzling grasp of the many meanings of language and the politics that underlie language policy and educational discourse.' Stanley Aronowitz, City University of New York 'In the present political climate, racism and classism often hide behind seemingly technical issues about English in the modern world. The Hegemony of English courageously unmasks these deceptions and points the way to a more humane and sane way to discuss language in our global world.' James Paul Gee, University of Wisconsin, Madison The Hegemony of English succinctly exposes how the neoliberal ideology of globalization promotes dominating language policies. In the United States and Europe these policies lead to linguistic and cultural discrimination while, worldwide, they aim to stamp out a greater use and participation of national and subordinate languages in world commerce and in international organizations such as the European Union. Democracy calls for broad, multi-ethnic participation, and the authors point us toward more effective approaches in an increasingly interconnected world.
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This should be required reading for anyone concerned or professionally associated with linguistics, language teaching and theory, social policy, or curricular development. -- TESOL Quarterly In the present political climate, racism and classism often hide behind seemingly technical issues about English in the modern world. The Hegemony of English courageously unmasks these deceptions and points the way to a more humane and sane way to discuss language in our global world. -- James Paul Gee, Tashia Morgridge Professor of Reading, University of Wisconsin, Madison [P]erhaps the best analysis of the English-only movement in the US and the ramifications worldwide of language policies favoring English. ...It displays a dazzling grasp of the many meanings of language and the politics that underlie language policy and educational discourse. -- Stanley Aronowitz, Distinguished Professor, Graduate Center, City University of New York
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Donaldo Macedo is Distinguished Professor of Education at U Mass Boston and co-author of Dancing with Bigotry: Beyond the Politics of Tolerance (Palgrave MacMillan, 2000) and The Hegemony of English (Paradigm, 2004). Panayota Gounari is Assistant Professor in the Applied Linguistics Graduate Program at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She is co-author with Donaldo Macedo of The Hegemony of English (Paradigm, 2003). Bessie Dendrinos teaches at the National and Kapodistrian Univ. of Athens.
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THE UNITED STATES HAS HAD NO OVERT OFFICIAL LANGUAGE POLICY regulated by legal and constitutional declaration, yet it is the envy of many nations that aggressively police language use within their borders through explicit policies designed to protect the "purity" and "integrity" of the national language. Read the first page
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THE UNITED STATES HAS HAD NO OVERT OFFICIAL LANGUAGE POLICY regulated by legal and constitutional declaration, yet it is the envy of many nations that aggressively police language use within their borders through explicit policies designed to protect the "purity" and "integrity" of the national language. Read the first page
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Wow! This book has been an invaluable resource to me as I complete my doctoral work researching bilingual education. It is profound in its insight into the institutionalized racism in our country. Bilingualism is an asset, yet our educational system doesn't see it that way unless it is the dominant culture adding (as opposed to subtracting) Spanish. I have read this book over and over and over!
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In one of Gingrich's most recent speeches, he "equated bilingual education...with the `language of living in the ghetto.'" While this argument is fed in snippets to the general public, the larger implications of such absurd rhetoric goes largely unquestioned. In "The Hegemony of English," the authors probe into some of the deeper and more poignant issues regarding the debate over bilingualism. They point to the fact that some of our policies go against the avalanche of research that supports bilingualism. If the education of our children is the most important issue, then why are we not listening to the educational research? Why are we still striving to create a monolingual society despite the fact that there are many positive aspects to being bilingual? Check out Language, Power, and Pedagogy: Bilingual Children in the Crossfire (Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 23) for more information regarding bilingual education.
Not the best reading in the world, but definitely something that educators should be knowledgeable about. It is short book with a deep and important message.
Not the best reading in the world, but definitely something that educators should be knowledgeable about. It is short book with a deep and important message.
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