Valuing Language Study: Inquiry into Language for Elementary and Middle Schools

This book offers teachers a language studies curriculum they can adapt to the needs of students. Through critical-moment teaching, strategic lessons, and theme cycles on language and linguistics, language and literature, and language as power, teachers and students can explore the roles that language plays in society and document both social and personal issues of language. Goodman teaches in the Department of Language, Reading and Culture at the University of Arizona. Annotation ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR