English Learners Left Behind: Standardized Testing as Language Policy
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- ISBN 9781853599989 / 1853599980
- Title English Learners Left Behind: Standardized Testing as Language Policy
- Author Kate Menken
- Category Bilingualism & Multilingualism
Examinations & Assessment - Format Hardcover
- Year 2008
- Pages 216
- Publisher Multilingual Matters Limited
- Imprint Multilingual Matters Ltd
- Language English
- Dimensions 147mm x 18mm x 211mm
Explores how high-stakes tests mandated by No Child Left Behind have become de facto language policy in US schools, detailing how testing has shaped curriculum and instruction, and the myriad ways that tests are a defining force in the daily lives of English Language Learners and the educators who serve them.
This book explores how high-stakes tests mandated by No Child Left Behind have become de facto language policy in U.S. schools, detailing how testing has shaped curriculum and instruction, and the myriad ways that tests are now a defining force in the daily lives of English Language Learners and the educators who serve them.
Kate Menken is an Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) at Queens College of the City University of New York (CUNY), and a Research Fellow at the Research Institute for the Study of Language in an Urban Society at the CUNY Graduate Center. Previously, she was a teacher of English as a second language.
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