Fwd: New book by Kate Menken

[Susan Harman <susanharman@igc.org>]

Begin forwarded message:

  From: James Crawford <jwcrawford@COMPUSERVE.COM>

  Date: Mon Feb 18, 2008 6:11:14 AM US/Pacific

  To: ELLADVOC@ASU.EDU

  Subject: New book by Kate Menken

  Reply-To: James Crawford <jwcrawford@COMPUSERVE.COM>

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   ENGLISH LEARNERS LEFT BEHIND

                      Standardized Testing as Language Policy

                                  Kate Menken                        (City
  University of New York, Queens)

  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 Behindis 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 Menkenis 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
  LearningLevel:    Postgraduate Research / Professional

  Territory:Arial World

           SeriesArial Bilingual Education &
  Bilingualism                                                Cat         110

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