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"Provides a comprehensive introduction to critical language awareness and critical language pedagogy for educators and future educators in virtually all subject areas and at all levels. Research and scholarship in critical pedagogy is impressive, extensive, and powerful, and has had significant impact on nearly every aspect of contemporary educational scholarship. One area in which critical theory and critical pedagogy have been slow to have a noticeable effect, however, is that of language education, especially foreign language education. Further, while a number of important works address issues of critical literacy, there are no general works presenting critical perspectives on language and language issues targeting classroom teachers and other educators. This work offers a broad and comprehensive overview of language and linguistic issues that emerge in the classroom context from a critical philosophical perspective. The central focus is on the nexus of issues of language, education, and ideology, as the title suggests, and specific topics covered will include language and power, linguistic purism, the marginalization of second language education in the United States, the phenomenon of ideological monolingualism in the United States, the hierarchy of the ""less commonly taught"" languages (both in terms of its etiology and the ideological and hegemonic functions this hierarchy serves), nonmainstream language varieties in school settings, issues of linguistic legitimacy in the classroom context, the politics and ideological context of bilingual education in the United States, language policy both as a tool for oppression and as a means of empowerment, and finally, the need for critical language awareness on the part of all educators."

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?This cogent, well-written essay, intended to persuade as much as to inform, explores contemporary sociolinguistic conclusions about language....This book would be particularly suitable for undergraduates who have not encountered its premises before. Highly recommended. Undergraduate collections.?-Choice

?This cogent, well-written essay, intended to persuade as much as to inform, explores contemporary sociolinguistic conclusions about language....This book would be particularly suitable for undergraduates who have not encountered its premises before. Highly recommended. Undergraduate collections.?-Choice This cogent, well-written essay, intended to persuade as much as to inform, explores contemporary sociolinguistic conclusions about language....This book would be particularly suitable for undergraduates who have not encountered its premises before. Highly recommended. Undergraduate collections. -Choice

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TIMOTHY REAGAN is Professor of Educational Linguistics, Neag School of Education, University of Connecticut.

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