This edited collection explores the immense potential of translanguaging in educational settings and highlights teachers and students negotiating language ideologies in their everyday communicative practices. It makes a significant contribution to scholarship on translanguaging and considers the need for pedagogy to reflect and embrace diversity.…

Reviews the development of the English Only movement and its negative effects on linguistic minorities. Suggests the following components of a national language policy: abandon divisive "Official English" measures; encourage transitional bilingual education; expand existing adult education with federal support; and revitalize the concept…

Discusses a report of a task force on English language education in Quebec. Describes each portion of the report: educational policy, issue analysis and recommendations, and predictions that English-speaking student enrollment in Quebec will continue to fall. Includes additional opinions on other subjects. (DK)

A discussion of the movement to make English the only official language in the United States' multilingual society examines the nature and scope of the movement and draws instructional and language policy implications for teaching situations involving language-minority populations. It draws a relationship between the politics of language diversity…

This paper, which considers effective science teaching and learning for limited English proficient (LEP) students in U.S. schools, is based on the assumption that science and English language can be effectively learned together without excessive emphasis on students' native language, although teachers and aides who have knowledge of LEP students'…