Racialized Nature of Academic Language

<p><b>This book explores the marginalization that English as additional language (EAL) learners immigrant or language-minoritized people confront when learning to socialize into using the language of schooling. </b> The authors examine racialized academic language not to dismiss it but to scrutinize its presence and impact on individuals' lives. <p/> Beginning with connections between eugenics intelligence whiteness language monolingualism and bilingualism it then reviews current practices and how the construction of academic language in various schooling and non-schooling contexts creates hegemonic structures that perpetuate deficit perspectives. The final section envisions what could help dismantle the power knots that academic language holds in systemic structures. <p/> This is a vital book for teachers teacher educators and policy makers who refuse the deficiency orientations placed on non-standardized use of language at schools and want to deconstruct the power that academic standardized language holds in the lives of language-minoritized students.</p>