TY - JOUR
AU1 - TERDAL, MARJORIE
AB - BOOK NOTICES The TESOL Quarterly welcomes short evaluative reviews of print and nonprint publications relevant to TESOL professionals. Book notices may not exceed 500 words and must contain some discussion of the significance of the work in the context of current theory and practice in TESOL. Language Diversity: Problem or Resource? Sandra Lee McKay and Sau-ling Cynthia Wong (Eds.). New York: Newbury House, 1988. Pp. xiii+ 386. From the opening chapter, this book answers the question in its title with a strong assertion that linguistic diversity should be considered a national resource to be maximized, rather than a problem to be fixed. An edited collection of papers by specialists in language education and linguistics, Language Diversity provides a convincing argument that language difference should not be treated as a cause for school failure or discrimination for minority groups in the United States. The opening chapter by Richard Ruiz provides the theoretical premise on which the book is based. Discussing different attitudes toward language and their impact on language policy, Ruiz points out potentially negative effects from both the problem-oriented approach, with its emphasis on either eradication or remediation, and the rights-oriented approach, which has met with resistance and confrontation. 
TI - Language Diversity: Problem or Resource? Sandra Lee McKay and Sau‐ling Cynthia Wong (Eds.)
JF - Tesol Quarterly
DO - 10.2307/3587539
DA - 1989-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/language-diversity-problem-or-resource-sandra-lee-mckay-and-sau-ling-JP4l0PIu36
SP - 685
EP - 686
VL - 23
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -