Research Methods in Language and Education

by Hornberger, Nancy H.

• ISBN13: 9780792349358
• ISBN10: 0792349350
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-05-01
• Publisher: SPRINGER

Summary

The present volume seeks to enable language and education practitioners, researchers, and interested lay readers alike to get a sense of the range of issues being pursued in language and education research and the array of methods employed to do so. A major assumption of the volume is that both micro and macro perspectives and both social and linguistic levels of analysis are critical for an understanding of the interaction between language and education. It is organized in four parts, focusing in turn on language and education in relation to society, variation, culture, and interaction. The contributing scholars hail from five continents and nine countries; they represent a great diversity of linguistic, cultural, and disciplinary traditions. For all that, what is most impressive about this volume is the unity of purpose and outlook with regard to the central role of language as both vehicle and mediator of educational processes and to the need for continued and deepening research into the limits and possibilities that implies.

Table of Contents

General Editor's Introduction	vii
Introduction	xi
Section 1: Language, Society, and Education: Recent Advances in Approaches, Methods, and Topics
Sociology of Language	1	(14)
Su-chiao Chen
Language Planning	15	(10)
Seran Dogancay-Aktuna
Social Science Theory in Researching Language and Education	25	(10)
Robert Young
Survey Methods in Researching Language and Education	35	(12)
Colin Baker
Researching Gender in Language Use	47	(12)
Rebecca D. Freeman
Section 2: Language, Variation, and Education: Recent Advances in Approaches, Methods, and Topics
Variationist Sociolinguistics	59	(8)
Stella Maris Bortoni-Ricardo
Language Research Methods and Critical Pedagogy	67	(12)
Tara Goldstein
Experimental Methods in Researching Language and Education	79	(10)
Ludo Verhoeven
Second Language Acquisition Research Methods	89	(12)
Teresa Pica
Researching Age in Language Acquisition and Use	101	(10)
Birgit Harley
Researching Race and Social Class in Language Acquisition and Use	111	(14)
John Baugh
Section 3: Language, Culture, and Education: Recent Advances in Approaches, Methods, and Topics
Ethnography of Communication	125	(10)
Iffat Farah
Classroom Ethnography	135	(10)
Karen Ann Watson-Gegeo
Case Study Methods in Researching Language and Education	145	(8)
Christian Faltis
Ethnographic Interview Methods in Researching Language and Education	153	(12)
Olga G. Rubio
Research Methods for Studying the Language of Blind Children	165	(10)
Sarah H. Norgate
Research Methods for Studying the Language of the Signing Deaf	175	(12)
Jan Branson
Don Miller
Section 4: Language, Interaction, and Education: Recent Advances in Approaches, Methods, and Topics
Microethnography	187	(10)
Pedro M. Garcez
Critical Ethnography	197	(10)
Stephen A. May
Critical Discourse Research	207	(10)
Bonny Norton
Conversation Analysis Methods in Researching Language and Education	217	(10)
James L. Heap
Teacher Research Methods in Language and Education	227	(12)
Teresa L. McCarty
Research Methods for Studying the Use of Computers in Literacy Classrooms	239	(10)
Ilana Snyder
Bilingual Classroom Discourse: Changing Research Approaches and Diversification of Research Sites	249	(10)
Marilyn Martin-Jones
Subject Index	259	(10)
Name Index	269	(8)
Cumulative Subject Index	277	(52)
Cumulative Name Index	329	(50)
Tables of Contents other Volumes	379