Early Developments
Language policy in education as an instrument for the promotion of hegemony has been utilized by nation‐states over the course of the past five centuries. The scholar Antonio de Nebrija, through the promotion of his Castilian Grammar, was among the first to advocate for overt instruction in a standardized language as a means of advancing the interests of the state (Illich, 1979; Mignolo, 2003). François I of France, shortly thereafter likewise saw the importance of language policy in the interest of national hegemony (Christ, 1997). With the rise of common public schooling during the nineteenth century in a number of Western European countries, as well as in the USA, language policy has been at the core of teacher education, even though teachers have rarely received explicit subject matter preparation in language policy as a subject area. Similarly, with the onset of the 1868 Meiji period, language policy became a major focus of mass education in Japan (Carroll, 2001...
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
References
August, D. and Hakuta, K.: 1998, Educating Language‐Minority Children, National Academy Press, Washington, DC.
Baetens‐Beardsmore, H. (ed.): 1993, European Models of Bilingual Education, Multilingual Matters, Clevedon, UK.
Baker, C.: 2001, Foundations of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism (third edition), Multilingual Matters, Clevedon, UK.
Barns, D.: 1976, From Communication to Curriculum, Penguin, London.
Berdan, R. and Wiley, T.G.: March 1992, The Mainstreaming of ESL: Challenges for TESL Teacher Preparation, Paper presented on Annual Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) International Conference in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Block, D. and Cameron, D.: 2002, Globalization and Language Teaching, Routledge, London.
Canagarajah, A.S.: 1999, Resisting Linguistic Imperialism in English Teaching, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Carroll, T.: 2001, Language Planning and Language Change in Japan, Curzon, Richmond.
Christ, H.: 1997, ‘Language policy in teacher education’, in D. Corson (ed.), Encyclopedia of Language and Education, Vol. 1, Kluwer, Dordrecht, 219–227.
Churchill, S.: 1986, The Education of Linguistic and Cultural Minorities in the OECD Countries, Multilingual Matters, Clevedon, UK.
Corson, D.: 1999, Language Polices in Schools. A Resource for Teachers and Administrators, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah, NJ.
Corson, D.: 2001, Language, Power and Social Justice in Education, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah, NJ.
Coulmas, F.: 1990, ‘Language in Meji Japan’, in B. Weinstien (ed.), Language Policy and Political Development, Ablex, Norwood, NJ.
Darling‐Hammond, L.: 2001, ‘Standard setting in teaching’, in Virginia Richardson (ed.), Handbook of Research on Teaching (fourth edition), American Educational Research Association (AERA), Washington, DC, 751–776.
Daudet, Y. and Sigh, K.: 2001, The Right to Education: An Analysis of UNESCO's Standard Setting Instruments, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Paris.
Dewey, J.: 1963, Experience and Education, MacMillan, New York (originally published 1938).
Gewerh, W. (ed.): 1998, Aspects of Modern Langauge Teaching, Routledge, London.
Haas, M.: 1992, Institutional Racism: The Case of Hawai'i, Praeger, Westport, CN.
Hakuta, K.: 1986, Mirror of Language: The Debate over Bilingualism, Basic Books, New York.
Hawkins, M.R. (ed.): 2004, Language Learning and Teacher Education: A Sociocultural Approach, Multilingual Matters, Clevedon.
Heath, S.B.: 1983, Ways with Words: Language, Life, and Work in Communities and Classrooms, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Illich, I.: 1979, ‘Vernacular values and education’, Teacher's College Record 81(1), 31–75.
International Reading Association & National Council of Teachers of English: 1996, Standards for the English Language Arts, Author, Newark, DE; Urbana, IL.
May, S.: 1994, Making Multicultural Education Work, Multilingual Matters, Clevedon.
May, S.: 2001, Language and Minority Rights: Ethnicity, Nationalism and the Politics of Language, Longman, London (Reprinted by Routledge, 2007).
McKay, S.: 2002, Teaching English as an International Language, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
McGroarty, M.: 2002, ‘Evolving influences on educational language policies’, in J.W. Tollefson (ed.), Language Policies in Education: Critical Issues, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah, NJ, 17–38.
Mignolo, W.D.: 2003, The Darker Side of the Renaissance: Literacy, Territoriality, & Colonization (second edition), University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor.
Peterson, G.: 1997, The Power of Words. Literacy and Revolution in South China, 1945–95, University of British Columbia Press, Vancouver, BC.
Ramírez, J.D., Wiley, T.G., de Klerk, G., Lee, E., and Wright, W. (eds.): 2005, Ebonics in the Urban Education Debate (second edition), Multilingual Matters, Clevedon, UK.
Skutnabb‐Kangas, T.: 2000, Linguistic Genocide in Education or Worldwide Diversity and Human Rights? Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah, NJ.
Skutnabb‐Kangas, T.: 2002, ‘Marvelous rights rhetoric and grim realities’, Journal of Language, Identity, and Education 1(3), 179–205.
Smitherman, G.: 2005, ‘Black language and the education of Black children’, in J.D. Ramírez, T.G. Wiley, G. de Klerk, E. Lee, and W. Wright (eds.), Ebonics in the Urban Education Debate (second edition), Multilingual Matters, Clevedon, UK, 49–61.
Sridhar, K.K.: 1996, ‘Societal multilingualism’, in S.L. McKay and N. Hornberger (eds.), Sociolinguistics and Language Teaching, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 47–71.
Teachers of English to Speakers of other Languages (TESOL): 1997, ESL Standards for Pre‐K‐12 Students, Author, Arlington, VA.
Trappes‐Lomax, H. and Gerguson, G.: 2002, Language Teacher Education, John Benjamins, Amsterdam.
Tumposky, N.R.: 1984, ‘Behavioral objectives, the cult of efficiency, and foreign language learning. Are they compatible’, TESOL Quarterly 18(2), 295–307.
Valadez, C., MacSwan, J., and Martínez, C.: 2002, ‘Toward a new view of low achieving bilinguals: A study of linguistic competence in designated “semilinguals,” ’ Bilingual Review 25(3), 238–248.
Weinberg, M.: 1997, Asian‐American Education, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah, NJ.
Wiley, T.G.: 1996, ‘Language planning and language policy’, in S. McKay and N. Hornberger (eds.), Sociolinguistics and Language Teaching, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 103–147.
Wiley, T.G.: 2002, ‘Accessing language rights in education: A brief history of the U.S. context’, in J. Tollefson (ed.), Language Policies in Education: Critical Readings, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah, NJ, 39–64.
Wiley, T.G.: 2005, Literacy and Language Diversity in the United States, Center for Applied Linguistics, Washington, DC.
Wiley, T.G. and Wright, W.: 2004, ‘Against the undertow: Language‐minority education and politics in the age of accountability’, Educational Policy 18(1), 142–168.
Wright, E.: 1980, ‘School English and public policy’, College English 42(4), 327–342.
Zhou, M. and Ross, H.A.: 2004, ‘Introduction: The context of theory and practice’, in M. Zhou and S.H.A. Hongkai (eds.), Language Policy in the Peoples Republic of China: Theory and Practice since 1949, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, xx.
Acknowledgement
The discussion on standards is based on Wiley ( 2005), with permission from the Center for Applied Linguistics, CAL. See Chapter 9, “The Standards Movement: Considerations for Language Minority Students” for an elaborated discussion.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2008 Springer Science+Business Media LLC
About this entry
Cite this entry
Wiley, T.G. (2008). Language Policy and Teacher Education. In: Hornberger, N.H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Language and Education. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-30424-3_17
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-30424-3_17
Publisher Name: Springer, Boston, MA
Print ISBN: 978-0-387-32875-1
Online ISBN: 978-0-387-30424-3
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law