Chapter 3. Disadvantage: A Brief Overview

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Chapter 1. Introduction 1
4. Chapter 2. Discourse Analysis and its Discontents 24
5. Chapter 3. Disadvantage: A Brief Overview 40
6. Chapter 4. Disadvantage: The Genetic Case 52
7. Chapter 5. Disadvantage: The Environmental Case 77
8. Chapter 6. The Language Debate 93
9. Chapter 7. The Persistence of Linguistic Deficit 126
10. Chapter 8. Evaluative Reactions to the Language of Disadvantage 146
11. Chapter 9. Black English as Ebonics 170
12. Chapter 10. ‘Foreign’ Languages in the Classroom 186
13. Chapter 11. Multiculturalism and Multicultural Education 206
14. Chapter 12. Bilingualism: A Very Brief Overview 234
15. Chapter 13. Bilingual Education 250
16. Chapter 14. A Concluding Statement 279
17. References 289
18. Index 335