Background Readings:
• Kloss 1977 (5, 6)
• Romaine 1989;
• Crawford 1989;
• Schiffman 1996: Chap. 8, 9.

On-line resources:
• Outline Handout on development of a policy through the 19th century.
• Mertz article on Whorfian Folk Theory in US Language Law
• Text of Supreme Court decision in Meyer v. Nebraska.
• Text of Supreme Court decision in Lau v. Nichols
• Ferguson/Heath 1981 (1)

• Kloss 1977 (1-4)
• Falch 1973
• Schiffman Ch.2 (Kloss, Ferguson, Stewart)
• Watts 1971,
• Ferguson 1971,
• Schiffman 1996 (Chap. 2) Handout on Typologies of Language Policies US, Canada, Europe, Asia, S. America:
  
  
• Stewart XPak 6,
• Breton 1991 (2-3)
• See the latest on Quebec secession
• A very comprehensive bibliography on European language policy issues
• Weinreich 1953,
• Rubin XPak5 (Paraguay),
• Kloss XPak7
• Falch 1973 (Europe),
• Das Gupta 1970 (India),
• Lewis 1972 (USSR),
• Stevens 1976 (Europe),
• Heath 1972 (Mexico)

• education;
• religion ; ethnic press/media;
• other factors, such as emotion, primordialism, etc.

• Fishman 1966,
• Handout based on Kloss XPak8 , "German-American Lg. Maintenance Efforts."
• Language Maintenance in the German-American church.

• Glazer (in F1966),
• Lewis (in F1972)
• Kloss XPak8.
• Schiffman 1976, Ch. 3.

• Introduction and Bibliography
• Recent material from Linguist List on language locations in the brain (bilingualism and cognition.)
• Haugen 1956
• Romaine 1989;
• Hamers & Blanc 1989 ( Bilinguality and Bilingualism.)
• Lambert XPak12;
• Recent articles from New York Times on the glories of Immersion programs

• Mackey XPak11
• Hamers and Blanc 1989;
• Albert/Obler XPak13
• Recent Report entitled Improving Schooling for Language Minority Children.

• Ferguson and Heath 1981

• Kloss XPak8;

• James Crawford's homepage

• University of Southern California Language Policy Website

See especially CreoList website with bibliographies and other reference materials.

• Handouts:
  
  
  1. Handout on Creoles and Pidgins
     
     
  2. Handout on African-American Vernacular English

  3. Paper by Wm. Labov on reading failure and especially linguistic sources of reading problems.

  4. A flap over Ebonix: an Ad in the NYTimes.

  5. A paper on the web by Peter Patrick Testing the Creole Continuum hypothesis.

  6. A site devoted to Non-standard English of various kinds, worldwide.

  7. Recent paper by Labov et al. on reading problems of African-American children.

• DeCamp XPak18;
  
  
• Reinecke 1975
  
  
• Holm 1988
  
  
• Hymes 1971,
  
  
• Romaine

• Ray, Haugen, Guxman, UNESCO, (XPak14-17)

• Handout on Language Attitudes

• Census Studies

• Census of India page
  • XPak US 1940 Census

  • Example of a study of language standardization in Tamil.

  • Example of a study using census material from Malaysia and Singapore to study language shift.