Tongue-Tied: The Lives of Multilingual Children in Public Education

by Otto Santa Ana

Book Overview

Tongue-Tied is an anthology that gives voice to millions of people who, on a daily basis, are denied the opportunity to speak in their own language. First-person accounts by Amy Tan, Sherman Alexie, bell hooks, Richard Rodriguez, Maxine Hong Kingston and many other authors open windows onto the lives of linguistic minority students and their experience in coping in school and beyond. Selections from these writers are presented along accessible, abridged...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742523837
• ISBN13: 9780742523838
• Release Date: March 2004
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 311 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Tongue Tied

Excellent book. We use this book as the main textbook for our Language Acquisition, Structure and Use course at UCLA's Teacher Education Program. The students love it.