Language, Immigration, and Human Rights
in U.S. Language Policy
Sponsored by FAHSS
Date: Wednesday, February 26th, 2015, 4:00 PM
Location: TBA
Watch: Language, Immigration, and Human Rights in U.S. Language Policy
Lecture Abstract
This presentation addresses the question of the salience of linguistic human rights
in the United States and the extent to which language
minorities have been able to exercise language rights in education. It will compare
positions endorsed by the United Nations with policies
and practices in the United States, provide background on key court cases related
to educational language rights, and present a framework
for categorizing language policies. The presentation also notes recent challenges
to both linguistic and educational rights that have
reemerged within the contexts ofanti-immigrant discourse and arguments for state’s
rights.
About the Speaker: Terrence G. Wiley
President, Center for Applied Linguistics, Washington, DC; Special Professor, Department of Teaching and Learning, Policy and Leadership and Graduate School, University of Maryland.
Professor Wiley’s publications include Handbook of Heritage, Community, and Native American Languages: Research, Policy, and Practice (2014), Literacy and Language Diversity in the United States (2005), and Ebonics in the Urban Education Debate (2005). He is a founder/editor of the Journal of Language, Identity and Education, the International Multilingual Research Journal, the International Journal of the Sociology of Language and Bilingual Research Journal. He is the recipient of the 2014 American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) Distinguished Scholarship and Service Award.