Chapter 9
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Examples and Resources
| Page # | Callout # | Link | Description |
| 188 | 9.1 | a)http://chnm.gmu.edu/exploring/images/stir.jpg b)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melting_pot#mediaviewer/File:TheMeltingpot1.jpg |
Melting pot images. |
| 188 | 9.2 | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32l3sTFRFX8 | School House Rock - The Great American Melting Pot. |
| 189 | 9.3 | https://www.census.gov/hhes/socdemo/language/ | US Census data on language use. |
| 191 | 9.4 | http://www.census.gov/hhes/socdemo/language/about/historical.html | US Census, Historical Language Questions. |
| 191 | 9.5 | http://elalliance.org/ | The Endangered Language Alliance. |
| 192 | 9.6 | http://www.census.gov/prod/2013pubs/acs-22.pdf | "Language Use in the United States: 2011." A report from the US Census. |
| 196 | 9.7 | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSs1uCnLbaQ&feature=youtu.be | Kim Potowski's TEDx Talk: "No Child Left Monolingual." |
| 198 | 9.8 | http://www.cal.org/CALWebDB/Heritage/Default.aspx | Heritage Language Program Database. |
| 199 and 208 | 9.9 | http://pabook.libraries.psu.edu/palitmap/PADutch.html | Use and maintenance of Pennsylvania German. |
| 201 | 9.10 | http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/15/opinion/sunday/are-we-really-monolingual.html?_r=0 | Michael Erard: "Are We Really Monolingual?," from the New York Times. |
| 200 | 9.11 | http://www.libertyellisfoundation.org/ | The Statue of Liberty & Ellis Island Foundation |
| 201 | 9.12 | https://history.state.gov/milestones/1937-1945/american-isolationism | Discussion on US isolationism in the 1930s. |
| 205 | 9.13 | http://aiisf.org/ | Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation. |
Flashcards
Suggested Reading
Multilingual America
Fishman, J. (2004). Multilingualism and non-English mother tongues. In E. Finegan & J. R.
Rickford (Eds.), Language in the U.S.A.: Themes for the twenty-first century (pp. 115-132). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Miller, J.L. (2011). Accented America. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Potowski, K. (Ed.). (2010). Language diversity in the U.S.A. (pp. 66-80). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Ryan, C. B. (2013). Language use in the United States: 2011. American Community Survey Reports. August 2013. http://www.census.gov/prod/2013pubs/acs-22.pdf
Shin, H. B. and Kominski, R. A. 2010. Language use in the United States: 2007. American Community Survey Report. April 2010. http://www.census.gov/prod/2010pubs/acs-12.pdf
Wiley, T.G. (2010). Language policy in the U.S.A. In K. Potowski (Ed.) Language diversity in the U.S.A. (pp. 255-271). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.