James W Tollefson
Biographic Data
| ID | 732369 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James W Tollefson |
| GIVEN NAMES | James W |
| FAMILY NAME | Tollefson |
| SIGNATURE | TOLLEFSON J W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Washington |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4203-8085 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 94 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Language Ideology in Education
This chapter reviews research on language ideology in education in two major periods. It began in the 1980s with a focus on widespread but unacknowledged language ideologies that underlie common educational practices. By taking power and inequality as the entry point, this early research examined the “hidden curriculum” of classrooms and other educational institutions, as well as the impact of widely shared, “commonsense” cultural assumptions abo…
The Oxford Handbook of Language Policy and Planning
This Handbook offers a state-of-the-art account of research in language policy and planning (LPP). The Handbook examines the ways in which scholarship in language policy and planning (LPP) has understood the changing relationship between LPP and political-economic conditions, and how this changing relationship has shaped knowledge production in the field. With an underlying interest in language, social critique, and inequality, scholars in this v…
Security and Language Policy
This chapter draws critical security studies into the investigation of language policy for two reasons. First, it provides informative commentary on how the concept of security is being reconfigured, with developments in digital technology, large-scale population movements, and the privatisation of public services. Second, it is increasingly attentive to how geopolitics permeates the everyday. Accordingly, critical security studies can generate c…
Language Tests, Language Policy, and Citizenship
The role of language tests in immigration policy has attracted significant attention in recent years as the disruptive effects of globalisation are felt. Much of the research has focused on the situation in Europe, where societies that were traditionally not countries of immigration now have significant and increasing immigrant communities. Less attention has been paid to countries of immigration such as Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the Un…
Language Policy and the Construction of National Cultural Identity
In this chapter, the authors examine three components of language policy: language planning or management, language ideology, and language practices. In both Hong Kong and Brunei, histories have been constructed and reconstructed to serve political ends, and language policies have been integral parts of the sociopolitical processes. The authors explore the relationship between language policy and national cultural identity through examining the i…
Language Policy in Education in Bangladesh
This chapter focuses on three issues in language and education in Bangladesh: the role of Bengali in the ideology of Bengali nationalism; the forces that contribute to the spread and entrenchment of English among the elite, despite the symbolic importance of Bengali; and language in the current educational system. It includes a historical analysis of the Bengali Language Movement, which was closely linked with the movement for the independence of…
Language Policy, Culture, and Identity in Asian Contexts
Issues in Language Policy, Culture, and Identity
This conclusion present some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book shows that identity can no longer be regarded as a characteristic that individuals gain through birth, something stable and consistent throughout one's life. Essentialist notions of fixed identity assume relatively straightforward relationships between language varieties and identities. The book examines, in a number of Asian cou…
Language education policy in late modernity: Insights from situated approaches—commentary
Language policy-making in multilingual education: Mass media and the framing of medium of instruction
In some settings, medium of instruction (MOI) policies in multilingual education break out into public debates in mass media involving politicians, business leaders, government officials, parents, and school children. These public discussions of MOI often index struggles over the distribution of political power and economic resources, and issues such as national cultural identity, national security, equity, and social justice. Although there is a…
Language Ideology in a Language Classroom
This entry examines ideologies of language in language classrooms. The study of ideology seeks to uncover the hidden world of students and teachers to shed light on the fundamental forces that shape and give meaning to their actions and interactions.
Language in the USA: Themes for the Twenty-First Century by Edward Finegan and John R. Rickford
In 1981, Cambridge University Press published Language in the USA, edited by Charles A. Ferguson and Shirley Brice Heath. That remarkable collection provided a wealth of information about the curre
Pedagogies of Globalization: The Rise of the Educational Security State
Why are educational systems in countries around the world so similar in structure and content? How was education globalized? What is the relation between education and national security? These are
The Forum
The language debates: Preparing for the war in Yugoslavia, 19801991
Article The language debates: preparing for the war in Yugoslavia, 19801991 was published on February 28, 2002 in the journal International Journal of the Sociology of Language (volume 2002, issue 154)
Language policy in independent Slovenia
Despite the preeminent status of Slovene in its newly independent state, Slovenia has adopted a wide range of measures to protect minority languages. The article summarizes those measures, both constitutional provisions and other important laws and regulations, and seeks to explain why Slovenia persists in its protection of linguistic minorities. In addition, other important language policy issues facing Slovenia are summarized. Language and nati…
Power, Politics, and Language Rights
The Cultural Politics of English as an International Language. Language in Social Life Series. Alastair Pennycook. Linguistic Human Rights: Overcoming Linguistic Discrimination. Contributions to the Sociology of Language 67. Tove Skutnabb-Kangas and Robert Phillipson (Eds.) Power and Inequality in Language Education. Language in Social Life Series. Alastair Pennycook
Language policy and power: Yugoslavia, the Philippines, and Southeast Asian refugees in the United States
Article Language policy and power: Yugoslavia, the Philippines, and Southeast Asian refugees in the United States was published on January 1, 1993 in the journal International Journal of the Sociology of Language (volume 1993, issue 103)
Planning language, planning inequality: Language Policy in the Community
"Comments on James W. Tollefson's "Alien Winds: "The Reeducation of America's Indochinese Refugees" and Elsa Auerbach's Review. Response to Ranard and Gilzow: The Economics and Ideology of Overseas Re…
James W. Tollefson, Comments on James W. Tollefson's "Alien Winds: The Reeducation of America's Indochinese Refugees" and Elsa Auerbach's Review. Response to Ranard and Gilzow: The Economics and Ideology of Overseas Refugee Education, TESOL Quarterly, Vol. 24, No. 3 (Autumn, 1990), pp. 543-555
Alien Winds: The Reeducation of America's Indochinese Refugees
U American personnel working in the Philippine Refugee Processing Center (PRPC) no longer live in buildings made of asbestos: After some protest, virtually all of them have been moved to asbestos-free concrete dormitories. But most of their Filipino counterparts and all of the camps' thousands of Indochinese refugees continue to live in asbestos housing despite massive documentation of its hazards, its pervasiveness, and recommendations for its r…
Educating for Employment in Programs for Southeast Asian Refugees: A Review of Research
Broken Promises: Reading Instruction in Twentieth-Century America
m One of the most important developments in the social sciences in recent years has been the growing awareness that prevailing theories may reflect the legitimizing philosophies of dominant groups. The critical approach to social science theory seeks to discover the ways in which theory and practice serve the interests of groups that dominate the state apparatus, including education. This is nowhere more evident than in language studies, where th…
Covert Policy in the United States Refugee Program in Southeast Asia
Kaŝa politiko en la usona programo por rifuĝintoj en Sudorienta Azio La Usonaj Centroj por Traktado de Rifuĝintoj (RPC) en Sudorienta Azio, kiujn oni in-aǔguris en 1980, konsistigas multe reklamatan kaj forte financatan trejnadan programon por faciligi la memsufiĉon de rifuĝintoj frue post ilia translokigo en Usonon. La donitaĵoj tamen montras, ke trejnado per RPC malmulte efikis je la lingvokapabloj, lertoj prepare al dungiĝo, kaj kapablo je kul…
Functional Competencies in the U.S. Refugee Program: Theoretical and Practical Problems
In past decade, functional, competency-based approach has come to dominate curriculum development. Though approach is widely praised, some specialists have recently criticized competency-based ESL. This article examines theoretical and practical deficiencies in how curricular objectives are selected for functional approach, central role of values in functional curricula, and limitations in validating tests of functional competence. It is argued t…
Language Policy, Culture, and Identity in Asian Contexts
Language policy-making in multilingual education: Mass media and the framing of medium of instruction
In some settings, medium of instruction (MOI) policies in multilingual education break out into public debates in mass media involving politicians, business leaders, government officials, parents, and school children. These public discussions of MOI often index struggles over the distribution of political power and economic resources, and issues such as national cultural identity, national security, equity, and social justice. Although there is a…
Language Policy and the Radical Left in the Philippines: The New People's Army and Its Antecedents
Lingvo-politiko kaj la radikala maldekstro en Filipinoj: La Nova Popola Armeo kaj ties antaǔuloj La nuna maldekstra ribelado en Filipinoj, kiun gvidas la Komunista Nova Popola Armeo (NPA), influas ĉiam pli kaj pli multe la politikon de la registaro. Tial ĉi tiu studo analizas la lingvo-politikon de NPA, precipe la kontraǔstaron de NPA al la angla, kaj gian historian fonon en la filipina radikala maldekstro. La analizo montras, ke la kutima vidpun…
Centralized and Decentralized Language Planning
La planification centralisée et décentralisée de la langue Cet article différencie les processus d'organisation de langue centralisée et de langue décentralisée suivant trois critères: le degré d'association; le degré d'adaptation à un plan; et l'importance relative accordée aux perspectives d'exécution, qu'il s'agisse de macro ou de micro-perspectives. L'organisation d'une langue centralisée se caracterise par un système d'organisation dont les …
The Forum
Language policy in independent Slovenia
Despite the preeminent status of Slovene in its newly independent state, Slovenia has adopted a wide range of measures to protect minority languages. The article summarizes those measures, both constitutional provisions and other important laws and regulations, and seeks to explain why Slovenia persists in its protection of linguistic minorities. In addition, other important language policy issues facing Slovenia are summarized. Language and nati…
Language policy and power: Yugoslavia, the Philippines, and Southeast Asian refugees in the United States
Article Language policy and power: Yugoslavia, the Philippines, and Southeast Asian refugees in the United States was published on January 1, 1993 in the journal International Journal of the Sociology of Language (volume 1993, issue 103)
Functional Competencies in the U.S. Refugee Program: Theoretical and Practical Problems
In past decade, functional, competency-based approach has come to dominate curriculum development. Though approach is widely praised, some specialists have recently criticized competency-based ESL. This article examines theoretical and practical deficiencies in how curricular objectives are selected for functional approach, central role of values in functional curricula, and limitations in validating tests of functional competence. It is argued t…
Types of language contact and the acquisition of language
Language education policy in late modernity: Insights from situated approaches—commentary
The language debates: Preparing for the war in Yugoslavia, 19801991
Article The language debates: preparing for the war in Yugoslavia, 19801991 was published on February 28, 2002 in the journal International Journal of the Sociology of Language (volume 2002, issue 154)
Covert Policy in the United States Refugee Program in Southeast Asia
Kaŝa politiko en la usona programo por rifuĝintoj en Sudorienta Azio La Usonaj Centroj por Traktado de Rifuĝintoj (RPC) en Sudorienta Azio, kiujn oni in-aǔguris en 1980, konsistigas multe reklamatan kaj forte financatan trejnadan programon por faciligi la memsufiĉon de rifuĝintoj frue post ilia translokigo en Usonon. La donitaĵoj tamen montras, ke trejnado per RPC malmulte efikis je la lingvokapabloj, lertoj prepare al dungiĝo, kaj kapablo je kul…
Research on Refugee Resettlement: Implications for Instructional Programs
Since refugees from Southeast Asia first began arriving in the United States ten years ago, a great deal of research on their resettlement has accumulated. Much of this research has implications for instructional programs in the processing centers of Southeast Asia and in the United States, but it may not be easily available to program planners. This article summarizes important research on resettlement reported since 1980 and outlines implicatio…
Language policy and the meanings of diglossia
The Maintenance of Slovenian in Carinthia: A Yugoslav-Austrian Dispute
AbstractCet article examine le débat entre la Yougoslavie et l’Autriche concernant la politique autrichienne par rapport au statut du langage slovène à l’intérieur de la province autrichienne de la Carinthie. Le conflit implique différentes interprétations de trois questions d’ordre historique: l’importance relative de l’impact germanique et slave dans la région, l’étendue des populations allemandes et slaves à travers l’histoire et le plébiscite…
The Role of Language Planning in Second Language Acquisition
In recent years, several models of second language acquisition (SLA) have been proposed in an effort to describe the relationships among variables affecting rate and eventual attainment in SLA. A major weakness of these models is that they have not included planning variables. That is, they have not accounted for the impact of government planning on SLA processes. This article explores the impact of planning variables within one of the most compr…
The Language Planning Process and Language Rights in Yugoslavia
Diese Artikel behandelt die Formulierung und Ausführung der jugoslawischen Sprachpolitik und das Verhältnis zwischen Sprachrechten und Nationalrechten in Jugoslawien. Die Formulierung bezieht sich auf Entscheidungen der Amts-gewalten hinsichtlich ( 1 ) der Innenstruktur der Sprachvarietäten bzw. ( 2 ) der Funktionszuteilung an die Varietäten innerhalb einer Sprachgemeinschaft. Die Ausfuhrung bezieht sich auf Versuche unter Gemeinschaftsmitglieder…
Language Policy and National Stability in Yugoslavia
AbstractL'importance principale de la question de nationalité en ce qui concerne la politique yougoslave se conçoit de différentes façons, comme un signe de la désintégration inévitable du système politique, ou comme un exemple de l'effort continu du système d'accommoder sa population diverse. Cet article examine la réponse du système politico-administratif décentralisé aux exigences des différents groupes nationaux pour les droits linguistiques.…
The Language Planning Process and Language Rights in Yugoslavia
Diese Artikel behandelt die Formulierung und Ausführung der jugoslawischen Sprachpolitik und das Verhältnis zwischen Sprachrechten und Nationalrechten in Jugoslawien. Die Formulierung bezieht sich auf Entscheidungen der Amts-gewalten hinsichtlich ( 1 ) der Innenstruktur der Sprachvarietäten bzw. ( 2 ) der Funktionszuteilung an die Varietäten innerhalb einer Sprachgemeinschaft. Die Ausfuhrung bezieht sich auf Versuche unter Gemeinschaftsmitglieder…
Language Policy and National Stability in Yugoslavia
AbstractL'importance principale de la question de nationalité en ce qui concerne la politique yougoslave se conçoit de différentes façons, comme un signe de la désintégration inévitable du système politique, ou comme un exemple de l'effort continu du système d'accommoder sa population diverse. Cet article examine la réponse du système politico-administratif décentralisé aux exigences des différents groupes nationaux pour les droits linguistiques.…
Types of language contact and the acquisition of language
Centralized and Decentralized Language Planning
La planification centralisée et décentralisée de la langue Cet article différencie les processus d'organisation de langue centralisée et de langue décentralisée suivant trois critères: le degré d'association; le degré d'adaptation à un plan; et l'importance relative accordée aux perspectives d'exécution, qu'il s'agisse de macro ou de micro-perspectives. L'organisation d'une langue centralisée se caracterise par un système d'organisation dont les …
Alternative paradigms in the sociology of language
The Maintenance of Slovenian in Carinthia: A Yugoslav-Austrian Dispute
AbstractCet article examine le débat entre la Yougoslavie et l’Autriche concernant la politique autrichienne par rapport au statut du langage slovène à l’intérieur de la province autrichienne de la Carinthie. Le conflit implique différentes interprétations de trois questions d’ordre historique: l’importance relative de l’impact germanique et slave dans la région, l’étendue des populations allemandes et slaves à travers l’histoire et le plébiscite…
The Role of Language Planning in Second Language Acquisition
In recent years, several models of second language acquisition (SLA) have been proposed in an effort to describe the relationships among variables affecting rate and eventual attainment in SLA. A major weakness of these models is that they have not included planning variables. That is, they have not accounted for the impact of government planning on SLA processes. This article explores the impact of planning variables within one of the most compr…
Language policy and the meanings of diglossia
Research on Refugee Resettlement: Implications for Instructional Programs
Since refugees from Southeast Asia first began arriving in the United States ten years ago, a great deal of research on their resettlement has accumulated. Much of this research has implications for instructional programs in the processing centers of Southeast Asia and in the United States, but it may not be easily available to program planners. This article summarizes important research on resettlement reported since 1980 and outlines implicatio…
Functional Competencies in the U.S. Refugee Program: Theoretical and Practical Problems
In past decade, functional, competency-based approach has come to dominate curriculum development. Though approach is widely praised, some specialists have recently criticized competency-based ESL. This article examines theoretical and practical deficiencies in how curricular objectives are selected for functional approach, central role of values in functional curricula, and limitations in validating tests of functional competence. It is argued t…
Language Policy and the Radical Left in the Philippines: The New People's Army and Its Antecedents
Lingvo-politiko kaj la radikala maldekstro en Filipinoj: La Nova Popola Armeo kaj ties antaǔuloj La nuna maldekstra ribelado en Filipinoj, kiun gvidas la Komunista Nova Popola Armeo (NPA), influas ĉiam pli kaj pli multe la politikon de la registaro. Tial ĉi tiu studo analizas la lingvo-politikon de NPA, precipe la kontraǔstaron de NPA al la angla, kaj gian historian fonon en la filipina radikala maldekstro. La analizo montras, ke la kutima vidpun…
Covert Policy in the United States Refugee Program in Southeast Asia
Kaŝa politiko en la usona programo por rifuĝintoj en Sudorienta Azio La Usonaj Centroj por Traktado de Rifuĝintoj (RPC) en Sudorienta Azio, kiujn oni in-aǔguris en 1980, konsistigas multe reklamatan kaj forte financatan trejnadan programon por faciligi la memsufiĉon de rifuĝintoj frue post ilia translokigo en Usonon. La donitaĵoj tamen montras, ke trejnado per RPC malmulte efikis je la lingvokapabloj, lertoj prepare al dungiĝo, kaj kapablo je kul…
Educating for Employment in Programs for Southeast Asian Refugees: A Review of Research
Broken Promises: Reading Instruction in Twentieth-Century America
m One of the most important developments in the social sciences in recent years has been the growing awareness that prevailing theories may reflect the legitimizing philosophies of dominant groups. The critical approach to social science theory seeks to discover the ways in which theory and practice serve the interests of groups that dominate the state apparatus, including education. This is nowhere more evident than in language studies, where th…
"Comments on James W. Tollefson's "Alien Winds: "The Reeducation of America's Indochinese Refugees" and Elsa Auerbach's Review. Response to Ranard and Gilzow: The Economics and Ideology of Overseas Re…
James W. Tollefson, Comments on James W. Tollefson's "Alien Winds: The Reeducation of America's Indochinese Refugees" and Elsa Auerbach's Review. Response to Ranard and Gilzow: The Economics and Ideology of Overseas Refugee Education, TESOL Quarterly, Vol. 24, No. 3 (Autumn, 1990), pp. 543-555
Alien Winds: The Reeducation of America's Indochinese Refugees
U American personnel working in the Philippine Refugee Processing Center (PRPC) no longer live in buildings made of asbestos: After some protest, virtually all of them have been moved to asbestos-free concrete dormitories. But most of their Filipino counterparts and all of the camps' thousands of Indochinese refugees continue to live in asbestos housing despite massive documentation of its hazards, its pervasiveness, and recommendations for its r…
Planning language, planning inequality: Language Policy in the Community
Language policy and power: Yugoslavia, the Philippines, and Southeast Asian refugees in the United States
Article Language policy and power: Yugoslavia, the Philippines, and Southeast Asian refugees in the United States was published on January 1, 1993 in the journal International Journal of the Sociology of Language (volume 1993, issue 103)
Power, Politics, and Language Rights
The Cultural Politics of English as an International Language. Language in Social Life Series. Alastair Pennycook. Linguistic Human Rights: Overcoming Linguistic Discrimination. Contributions to the Sociology of Language 67. Tove Skutnabb-Kangas and Robert Phillipson (Eds.) Power and Inequality in Language Education. Language in Social Life Series. Alastair Pennycook
Language policy in independent Slovenia
Despite the preeminent status of Slovene in its newly independent state, Slovenia has adopted a wide range of measures to protect minority languages. The article summarizes those measures, both constitutional provisions and other important laws and regulations, and seeks to explain why Slovenia persists in its protection of linguistic minorities. In addition, other important language policy issues facing Slovenia are summarized. Language and nati…
The language debates: Preparing for the war in Yugoslavia, 19801991
Article The language debates: preparing for the war in Yugoslavia, 19801991 was published on February 28, 2002 in the journal International Journal of the Sociology of Language (volume 2002, issue 154)
The Forum
Pedagogies of Globalization: The Rise of the Educational Security State
Why are educational systems in countries around the world so similar in structure and content? How was education globalized? What is the relation between education and national security? These are
Language in the USA: Themes for the Twenty-First Century by Edward Finegan and John R. Rickford
In 1981, Cambridge University Press published Language in the USA, edited by Charles A. Ferguson and Shirley Brice Heath. That remarkable collection provided a wealth of information about the curre
Language Ideology in a Language Classroom
This entry examines ideologies of language in language classrooms. The study of ideology seeks to uncover the hidden world of students and teachers to shed light on the fundamental forces that shape and give meaning to their actions and interactions.
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