Language in the schools : integrating linguistic knowledge into K-12 teaching / edited by Kristin Denham, Anne Lobeck.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

PART I: HOW KNOWLEDGE OF LANGUAGE CAN INFORM TEACHERS IN MULTICULTURAL, LINGUISTICALLY DIVERSE CLASSROOMS. Linguistics and education in multilingual America / John Baugh -- Embracing diversity through the understanding of pragmatics / Jin Sook Lee -- Gowing up shifting: immigrant children, their families, and the schools / Susan Meredith Burt and Hua Yang -- Language and gender matters in the classroom / Kathryn A. Remlinger -- "My teacher says...," mastery of English and the Creole learner / Alicia Beckford Wassink -- The relevance of linguistic analysis to the role of teachers as decision makers / Jean Ann and Long Peng -- A positive sign: a overview of the benefits of signing in the classroom / Lynn S. Mancini -- A critical approach to standard English / Anne Lobeck -- Bilingualism: myths and realities / Patricia MacGregor-Mendoza -- Spanish maintenance and English literacy: Mexican-descent children's Spanish and English narratives / Robert Bayley and Sandra R. Schecter.

PART II: INTEGRATING KNOWLEDGE OF LANGUAGE INTO K-12 TEACHING. Spelling stories: a way to teach the history of English / Anne Curzan -- Teaching students about language change, language endangerment, and language death / Kristin Denham -- Language as a reflection of our social and physical world: what students can learn from metaphor / Janet M. D. Higgins -- Contrastive analysis and codeswitching: how and why to use the vernacular to teach standard English / Rebecca S. Wheeler -- English LIVEs: language in variation exercises for today's classrooms / Kirk Hazen -- Developing savvy writers by analyzing grammar rants / Patricia A. Dunn and Kenneth Lindblom -- Linguistics as a tool in teaching fiction writing / Donna Jo Napoli -- Applications of corpus linguistics in the English language classroom / Tony T.N. Hung -- English gairaigo: learning about language structure from the margins of Japanese / Anca M. Nemoianu -- Opening dictionaries to investigation / Anne Curzan