Critical Questions, Critical Perspectives: Language and the Second Language Educator

by Timothy Reagan

Critical Questions, Critical Language and the Second Language Educator is intended primarily for language educators, broadly conceived, and thus is appropriate for not only foreign language teachers, but also individuals teaching English to speakers of other languages in both Anglophone and non-Anglophone settings, teachers in bilingual education programs, heritage language teachers in both formal and informal settings, and others whose work involves language teaching and learning. It is also intended for teachers of all age groups and levels, since the issues that it raises are neither age nor level specific. This is not a book about teaching methodology, nor is it the sort of work that will provide the teacher with practical activities for use in the classroom.

229 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2005

About the author

Timothy G. Reagan is Professor of World Language Education and former dean of the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Maine. He also holds the position of Research Fellow in the Department of South African Sign Language and Deaf Studies at the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein, South Africa. He has held a variety of senior faculty and administrative positions at institutions in the United States, South Africa and Kazakhstan, including at Gallaudet University, the University of Connecticut, Roger Williams University, Central Connecticut State University, the University of the Witwatersrand, and Nazarbayev University. Reagan has served as the editor-in-chief of the international journal Language Problems and Language Planning, and the founding co-editor of Critical Inquiry in Language Studies. He is the author of more than a dozen books and 150 refereed journal articles and book chapters.