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LANGUAGE POLICY IN THE U.S.

BILINGUAL EDUCATION
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/JWCRAWFORD/biling.htm
Proposition 227: Antibilingual program in California
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/JWCRAWFORD/unz.htm
"How could they do that? Commentary on California's Proposition 227", a paper by Weber Student Linda Ocana
ERIC Clearing House on Language and Linguistics: BilingualEducation
http://www.cal.org/ericcll/
ENGLISH ONLY
Linguistic Society of America resolution on English Only:
http://www.lsadc.org/web2/englishfr.htm
Nunberg: Lingo-Jingo and the New Nativism.
To be reprinted in Wheeler, R. (Ed) 1999 as "Why English-Only is a Bad Idea"
http://epn.org/prospect/33/33nunbfs.html
James Crawford on English Only
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/JWCRAWFORD/engonly.htm
ENGLISH PLUS
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/JWCRAWFORD/engplus.htm
LANGUAGE RIGHTS
The Linguistic Society of America on Language Rights
http://www.lsadc.org/web2/lgritefr.htm
James Crawford on language rights
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/JWCRAWFORD/rights.htm
LANGUAGE LEGISLATION
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/JWCRAWFORD/langleg.htm
NATIONAL IDENTITY
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/JWCRAWFORD/can-iden.htm
OFFICIAL ENGLISH
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/JWCRAWFORD/question.htm
LANGUAGE POLICY: GENERAL
A course in Language Policy, out of UPenn
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/policy.html
Linguistic culture and language policy
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/summary.html
 

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