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Tongue-Tied: The Lives of Multilingual Children in Public Education
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Rating:  - The silence of the teachers
This book begins with a fierce---and badly edited--- introduction by the anthologist, Otto Santa Ana, who asserts that "social institutions and empowered individuals coolly go about their day proscribing a large portion of our society from speaking their mind." However the anthology itself is surprisingly wide-ranging, incorporating excerpts from well known writers like Maxine Hong Kingston and Amy Tan along with academic articles (mostly abridged) by linguists and educators on aspects of multicultural education. Not surprisingly, the professional writers leave the turgid prose of the academicians, with their prescriptions for ideal schools, in the dust. But that's not the big problem with this anthology. One group---the group that has the most to do with the complexities of bilingual education--is completely voiceless. That would be the teachers, who grapple with these problems every day. Never mind that many of the essayists, novelists, and poets in this anthology allude, for better or worse, to teachers who influenced them. In this anthology, the experiences of teachers do not appear. A truly fine anthology, one that incorporates the long history in America of education and multilingual students (think of Frederick Douglass teaching himself the alphabet by studying the markings on the compnents of ships being assembled in a Baltimore shipyard)has yet to be compiled.
Rating:  - 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.
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