The English Language Debate: One Nation, One Language?

by Paul Lang and Paul Lang

Explores the arguments over whether or not immigrants to the United States and Canada should be encouraged to learn English without focusing on their native language. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0894906429
• ISBN13: 9780894906428
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Enslow Publishers
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 9 to 15 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 10

Customer Reviews

Complicated Issues in Simple Words

Should English be declared the official language of the United States? Should students be educated in their native language? For how long? Why? This balanced examination of a hot issue, originally written for young adults, can be used in college level courses in sociology, education, and politics. Providing a historical overview often missing from newspaper articles in 8 concise chapters, the book provided me with a far better understanding of the complicated politics of simply teaching English as a Second Language to immigrants. I found the complicated arguments, presented in relatively simple words, far more interesting than jargon-ladden essays usually read in university courses.