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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Bernard Spolsky was a professor emeritus in linguistics at Bar-Ilan University , specializing in sociolinguistics, educational linguistics, and applied linguistics. Spolsky did his studies at Wellington College and Victoria University. He received a Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Montreal.
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Published Works
- Language Management: Frontmatter (2009) (406)
- Conditions for Second Language Learning (1989) (310)
- Family language policy – the critical domain (2012) (245)
- The handbook of educational linguistics (2007) (239)
- ATTITUDINAL ASPECTS OF SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNING (1969) (230)
- The Languages of Israel: Policy, Ideology and Practice. Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 17. (1999) (215)
- 第二語言學習的條件 = Conditions for second language learning : introduction to a general theory (1989) (208)
- Reassessing Māori regeneration (2003) (154)
- Language Motivation Revisited. (2000) (137)
- PROLEGOMENA TO A SOCIOLINGUISTIC THEORY OF PUBLIC SIGNAGE (2008) (134)
- The Languages of Jerusalem (1991) (131)
- Measured Words: The Development of Objective Language Testing (1995) (123)
- The Cambridge Handbook of Language Policy: General index (2012) (107)
- An Investigation into the Comparability of Two Tests of English as a Foreign Language (1995) (97)
- 5. RELIGION AS A SITE OF LANGUAGE CONTACT (2003) (94)
- Towards a Theory of Language Policy (2007) (94)
- Language Practice, Language Ideology, and Language Policy (2000) (90)
- Communicative Competence, Language Proficiency, and Beyond (1989) (89)
- Prospects for the Survival of the Navajo Language: A Reconsideration (2002) (87)
- The ethics of gatekeeping tests: what have we learned in a hundred years? (1997) (80)
- Concise encyclopedia of educational linguistics (1999) (71)
- The limits of authenticity in language testi ng (1985) (70)
- Linguistic landscape (2020) (70)
- Conditions for Language Revitalization: A Com parison of the Cases of Hebrew and Maori (1995) (68)
- Acquiring Literacy in a Diglossic Context: Problems and Prospects (2014) (61)
- The Cambridge Handbook of Language Policy: What is language policy? (2012) (60)
- What Does it Mean to Know a Language, Or How Do You Get Someone to Perform His Competence?. (1968) (60)
- Language Management: Managing language in the family (2009) (56)
- Language and Education in Multilingual Settings (1986) (50)
- The Influence of language on culture and thought : essays in honor of Joshua A. Fishman's sixty-fifth birthday (1991) (49)
- Language in Israeli society and education (1999) (48)
- Maori bilingual education and language revitalisation (1989) (48)
- PRELIMINARY STUDIES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF TECHNIQUES FOR TESTING OVERALL SECOND LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY1 (1968) (47)
- Educational linguistics : an introduction (1978) (46)
- A modified and enriched theory of language policy (and management) (2018) (46)
- Testing Language Proficiency. (1976) (45)
- Language academies and␣other language management agencies (2011) (44)
- Frontiers of Bilingual Education. (1978) (42)
- Bridging the Gap: A General Theory of Second Language Learning (1988) (42)
- Formulating a Theory of Second Language Learning (1985) (42)
- Language Policy: List of tables (2003) (41)
- Language Testing; The Problem of Validation. (1968) (38)
- Language management in the People’s Republic of China (2014) (37)
- The Handbook of Educational Linguistics: Spolsky/Handbook (2008) (36)
- Reduced Redundancy as a Language Testing Tool. (1969) (35)
- Approaches to language testing (1978) (35)
- Introduction: What is Educational Linguistics? (2008) (34)
- Secondary school English education in Asia : from policy to practice (2015) (33)
- Language policy in schools (2009) (32)
- Religious, political and educational factors in the development of Biliteracy in the kingdom of tonga (1983) (32)
- Prognostication and language aptitude testing, 1925-62 (1995) (31)
- Case Studies in Bilingual Education (1977) (31)
- What does it mean to know howto use a language? An essay on the theoretical basis of language testing (1985) (30)
- The Languages of the Jews: A Sociolinguistic History (2014) (30)
- Contrastive Analysis, Error Analysis, Interlanguage, and Other Useful Fads* (1979) (30)
- Chapter 15. Hebrew After a Century of RLS Efforts (2001) (29)
- Hebrew language revitalization within a general theory of second language learning (1991) (29)
- Challenges for Language Education and Policy : Making Space for People (2014) (29)
- Multilingualism in Israel (1997) (27)
- Ferguson and Fishman: Sociolinguistics and the Sociology of Language (2011) (27)
- Introduction: Language Testing at 25: Maturity and responsibility? (2008) (26)
- Language Testing in The Modern Language Journal (2000) (25)
- Introduction to a Colloquium: The Scope and Form of a Theory of Second Language Learning. (1990) (25)
- A PSYCHOLINGUISTIC CRITIQUE OF PROGRAMMED FOREIGN LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION. (1966) (24)
- The teaching of English at secondary schools in Indonesia (2015) (23)
- The Teaching of Additional Languages in Israel (1992) (23)
- The language education of minority children;: Selected readings (1972) (23)
- The Navajo Reading Study: An Illustration of the Scope and Nature of Educational Linguistics. (1972) (21)
- Sociolinguistics. Oxford Introductions to Language Study. (1998) (20)
- Triglossia and literacy in Jewish Palestine of the first century (1983) (19)
- Research in English language teaching and learning in Israel (2004–2009) (2010) (19)
- Linguistics in practice: The navajo reading study (1975) (19)
- Navajo Language Maintenance: Six-Year-Olds in 1969. Navajo Reading Study, Progress Report No. 5. (1970) (18)
- A Model for the Description, Analysis, and Perhaps Evaluation of Bilingual Education. Navajo Reading Study Progress Report No. 23. (1974) (17)
- Norms, native speakers and reversing language shift (2002) (17)
- A multiple choice for language testers (1986) (17)
- Three Functional Tests of Oral Proficiency (1972) (16)
- Primary school English-language education in Asia : from policy to practice (2012) (16)
- Language policy in Portuguese colonies and successor states (2018) (16)
- English language education innovation for the Vietnamese secondary school: the Project 2020 (2015) (15)
- Testing across cultures: an historical perspective (1993) (15)
- Investigating Language Education Policy (2017) (15)
- Language Policy in Education: Practices, Ideology, and Management (2017) (14)
- Language policy in French colonies and after independence (2018) (14)
- English education in Asia : history and policies (2007) (14)
- Oral examinations: an historical note (1990) (13)
- Speech Communities and Schools. (1974) (13)
- Bilingualism and Biliteracy. (1981) (13)
- Language Planning and Policy: Models (2006) (13)
- American Indian Bilingual Education (1977) (12)
- TEACHING HEBREW IN THE DIASPORA: RATIONALES AND GOALS (1986) (12)
- The Penetration of English as Language of Science and Technology into the Israeli Linguistic Repertoire: A Preliminary Enquiry (2001) (11)
- Papers on language testing, 1967-1974 (1975) (11)
- When Languages Die: The Extinction of the World's Languages and the Erosion of Human Knowledge (review) (2010) (11)
- Language policy failures (2006) (11)
- The Limits of Language Education. (1971) (10)
- Sociolinguistics of Literacy, Bilingual Education, and Tesol* (1982) (10)
- Chapter 2. Is Language Policy Applied Linguistics (2005) (10)
- Language in its social context (2005) (10)
- A model for the evaluation of bilingual education (1978) (10)
- The prehistory of TOEFL (1990) (10)
- Languages in Bethlehem: the sociolinguistic transformation of a Palestinian Town (2000) (10)
- Overcoming Language Barriers to Education in a Multilingual World. (1985) (9)
- Language obsolescence and revitalization: Linguistic change in two sociolinguistically contrasting Welsh communities By Mari C. Jones (review) (2015) (9)
- WRITTEN NAVAJO: A Brief History (2007) (8)
- Trends in the Study of Athapaskan Language Maintenance and Bilingualism. Navajo Reading Study Progress Report No. 21. (1973) (8)
- Planning Foreign-Language Education: An Israeli Perspective (1997) (8)
- Politics and language change: The sociolinguistic reflexes of the division of a Palestinian village (1997) (8)
- Jewish styles of worship: a conversational analysis (1985) (8)
- Approaches to Language Testing. Advances in Language Testing Series: 2. Papers in Applied Linguistics. (1978) (8)
- Rethinking Language Policy (2021) (8)
- Recent Research in TESOL (1969) (7)
- The Modernization of Navajo (1982) (7)
- Language policy: The first half-century (2008) (7)
- History of Language Testing (2016) (6)
- Educating for the 21st century: the Singapore experience (2015) (6)
- The Comparative Study of First and Second Language Acquisition. (1977) (6)
- The Languages of Diaspora and Return (2017) (6)
- The Role of English as a Language of Maximum Access in Israeli Language Practices and Policies (1998) (6)
- Envoi: Towards Responsible Language Educational Management (2010) (6)
- Stephen A. Wurm (Ed). Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger of Disappearing; Dicky Gilbers, John Nerbonne & Jos Schaeken (eds). Languages in Contact (2002) (5)
- A History of Foreign Language Testing in the United States from its Beginnings to the Present: David Patrick Barnwell (1998) (5)
- Language Beliefs and the Management of Endangered Languages (2014) (5)
- | English Education at the Tertiary Level in Asia | Taylor & Francis Group (2017) (5)
- 17 Language policy: From planning to management (2018) (5)
- Policy Issues in Testing and Evaluation (1994) (5)
- Jewish Religious Multilingualism (2010) (5)
- Conditions for English Language Teaching and Learning in Asia (2014) (5)
- Linguistics: The Cambridge Survey: Bilingualism (1988) (5)
- Some problems of computer-based instruction. (1966) (4)
- Language Policy: Language practices, ideology and beliefs, and management and planning (2003) (4)
- Globalisation and the evolution of English language education in Malaysian secondary schools (2015) (4)
- Behind the ASTP Myth (1994) (4)
- American Indian Bilingual Education. Navajo Reading Study Progress Report No. 24. (1974) (4)
- Secondary English education in Bangladesh: a critical review (2015) (4)
- 1. On Second Thoughts (2007) (4)
- Riding the Tiger (2008) (3)
- The Construction of Identity in a Divided Palestinian Village: Sociolinguistic Evidence (2018) (3)
- Language Policy: Conclusions (2003) (3)
- Bilingualism in the Six-Year-Old Navajo Child. (1971) (3)
- Literacy in the Vernacular: The Case of Navajo. Navajo Reading Study, Progress Report No. 8. (1971) (3)
- Qinsheng Zhou: Ethnic Minority Languages in China: Policy and Practice (2021) (3)
- Do we need critical educational linguistics? (2022) (3)
- APACHEAN LANGUAGE MAINTENANCE (1974) (3)
- Suggestions from Representatives of the International Language Testing Association for Revision of the "AERA/APA/NCME Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing.". (1994) (3)
- Language conflict in Jerusalem – 1880 and 1980 (1993) (3)
- English in Israel after independence (1996) (3)
- COMPUTER‐BASED INSTRUCTION AND THE CRITERIA FOR PEDAGOGICAL GRAMMARS1 (1965) (3)
- The Influence of Ethics in Language Assessment (2013) (3)
- The Sociolinguistics of Literacy: An Historical and Comparative Study of Five Cases. Final Report. (1983) (2)
- Language Policy: The nature of language policy and its domains (2003) (2)
- Language Policy: Does the US have a language policy or just civil rights? (2003) (2)
- Avoiding the tyranny of the written word (1986) (2)
- Book review: Becoming Frum. How Newcomers Learn the Language and Culture of Orthodox Judaism, written by Benor, Sarah Bunin (2012) (2014) (2)
- Sociolinguistics by Bernard Spolsky (2011) (2)
- Test review (1988) (2)
- Linguistics and adjacent arts and sciences (1974) (2)
- The development of Navajo-English bilingualism (2002) (2)
- Socioeconomic Implications of Bilingual Education or the Navajo Reservation (2011) (2)
- “Shikl, what did you do for Yiddish today?” An appreciation of activist scholarship (2016) (2)
- Exploring the value of ELT as a secondary school subject in China: a multi-goal model for the English curriculum (2015) (2)
- Some Psycholinguistic and Sociolinguistic Aspects of Bilingual Education. (1968) (2)
- ESOL and Bilingual Education. (1969) (2)
- A computer-assisted study of the vocabulary of young Navajo children (1973) (2)
- Language Management: Towards a theory of language management (2009) (2)
- Introduction (2008) (2)
- APACHEAN LANGUAGE MAINTENANCE (1974) (2)
- Review: Continuity and Innovation: Revising the Cambridge Proficiency in English Examination 1913–2002 (2004) (2)
- The Languages of the Jews: The return to Zion and Hebrew (2014) (1)
- Individual differences in second-language learning . Skehan Peter London:Edward Arnold, 1989. Pp. vii + 168. (1992) (1)
- Hitting a Century (1993) (1)
- The Cambridge Handbook of Language Policy: Notes (2012) (1)
- Individual language advocates and managers (2022) (1)
- Jewish language varieties: Loss and survival (2016) (1)
- Obituary: Robert Cooper (2013) (1)
- Language testing and language management (2012) (1)
- Planning Foreign-Language Education (1997) (1)
- Revernacularization and Revitalization of the Hebrew Language (2012) (1)
- Changes in the Sociolinguistic Ecology of Jewish Communities (2019) (1)
- Language Policy in Education: History, Theory, Praxis (2016) (1)
- Cheating language tests can be dangerous (2001) (1)
- Comparative stylistics and the principle of economy (1962) (1)
- The Individual in Language Policy and Management (2021) (1)
- Sociolinguistics of Jewish Language Varieties (2018) (1)
- Getting Down to the Grass Roots: Affiliate Affairs. (1970) (1)
- Teaching Culture: Strategy for Foreign Language Educators (1975) (1)
- Book Review: The big test: the secret history of the American meritocracy (2000) (1)
- 9. Religion and Education in the Preservation of Hebrew and Other Jewish Language Varieties (2019) (1)
- Advances in Navajo Bilingual Education 1969-72. Navajo Reading Study Progress Report No. 20. (1972) (1)
- Analytical Bibliography of Navajo Reading Materials. Revised and Enlarged Edition. (1970) (1)
- Jewish language varieties (2016) (1)
- The Cambridge Handbook of Endangered Languages: Language and society (2011) (1)
- Language Testing: The Social Dimension: Tim McNamara and Carsten Roever (2008) (1)
- Navajo Language Maintenance II: Six-Year-Olds in 1970. (1971) (1)
- Advanced in language testing. (1979) (1)
- Testing the English of Foreign Students in 1930. (1993) (1)
- Some psycholinguistic conditions for second language learning (2013) (1)
- The Yavanic area: Greece and Italy (2014) (0)
- The Languages of the Jews: Britain, its former colonies, and the New World (2014) (0)
- Language Policy: How English spread (2003) (0)
- Language Policy: Partitioning language space – two, three, many (2003) (0)
- Language Policy: Language rights (2003) (0)
- Rethinking a Theory (2021) (0)
- Jewish Languages in Historical Perspective, edited by Kahn, Lily (2021) (0)
- [A Spoken Word Count of Six-Year-Old Navajo Children, with Supplement--Complete Word List.] Navajo Reading Study Progress Report No. 10. (1971) (0)
- Lewis Glinert (ed.): Hebrew in Ashkenaz: a language in exile. X, 264 pp. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993. £30. (1995) (0)
- Book Reviews (2007) (0)
- LANGUAGEAND PUBLIC POLICY Language management in the People's Republic of China (2014) (0)
- The Languages of the Jews: The Arabian and African connections (2014) (0)
- Sociolinguistics: The Study of Speakers' Choices: Florian Coulmas (2007) (0)
- Navajo Language Maintenance III: Accessibility of School and Town as a Factor in Language Shift. (1971) (0)
- Japanese in European language education policy (2008) (0)
- Imperialism and Colonialism (2021) (0)
- Yael Reshef: Historical continuity in the emergence of Modern Hebrew (2021) (0)
- Discovering Educational Linguistics : the NavajoReading Study (2012) (0)
- The Handbook of Applied Linguistics (review) (2007) (0)
- The Asian EFL classroom : issues, challenges and future expectations (2019) (0)
- The Languages of the Jews: The emergence of Hebrew (2014) (0)
- Education (2021) (0)
- Language Management: Language management in the workplace: managing business language (2009) (0)
- Public Institutions for Communication, Culture, Religion, Health and Law (2021) (0)
- Index to Volume 27, 1998 (1998) (0)
- Language Policy: Driving out the bad (2003) (0)
- Jews in Slavic Lands (2021) (0)
- Estimated current status of Jewish languages1 (2014) (0)
- Language Policy by Bernard Spolsky (2003) (0)
- Managing language in legal and health institutions (2009) (0)
- Constanze Weth and Kasper Juffermans (Eds.). (2018). The Tyranny of Writing: Ideologies of the Written Word (2019) (0)
- The Languages of the Jews: The spread of Islam (2014) (0)
- Secondary English education in Japan: an overview and a preview (2015) (0)
- Tomasz Kamusella: The Politics of Language and Nationalism in Modern Central Europe (2010) (0)
- The Family and the Home (2021) (0)
- The Development of Navajo Bilingual Education. (1973) (0)
- The Length of a Translation (1964) (0)
- Li Yuming (2015): Language Planning in China (2019) (0)
- A theory of language management: postscript or prolegomena (2009) (0)
- Language Policy: Pursuing the good and dealing with the new (2003) (0)
- The Editor's Department (2015) (0)
- The Situation of Navajo Literacy Projects. Navajo Reading Study Progress Report No. 17. (1972) (0)
- A Computer Assisted Study of the Vocabulary of Six-Year-Old Navajo Children. Navajo Reading Study Progress Report No. 9. (1971) (0)
- Language Management: Local, regional, and national governments managing languages (2009) (0)
- Language Management: Religious language policy (2009) (0)
- Language Management: References (2009) (0)
- The Nation State as Language Manager (2021) (0)
- Neighbourhoods and the Workplace (2021) (0)
- Localizing Global English (2020) (0)
- Literacy in the Vernacular: The Navajo Reading Study. (1970) (0)
- Linguistics: Language, Culture, and Communication: Essays by Joseph H. Greenberg. JOSEPH H. GREENBERG (1972) (0)
- The State of the Art in Language Assessment: Notes for the Third Millennium (2005) (0)
- Introduction: The Non-Linguistic Environment (2021) (0)
- Language Management: Language managers, language management agencies and academies, and their work (2009) (0)
- Influencing language management: language activist groups (2009) (0)
- Overcoming the Language Barrier to Education. CATESOL Occasional Papers, No. 5. (1979) (0)
- The Languages of the Jews: Hebrew–Aramaic bilingualism and competition (2014) (0)
- Ritu Jain (ed.): Multilingual Singapore: language policies and linguistic realities, Routledge, London and New York, 2021, 240 pp, Pb, $44.95, ISBN 978-10-320-0043-5 (2021) (0)
- The Cambridge Handbook of Language Policy: References (2012) (0)
- The Languages of the Jews: The Jews of France (2014) (0)
- The Languages of the Jews: Linguistic emancipation and assimilation in Europe (2014) (0)
- Loter-Ashkenaz and the creation of Yiddish (2014) (0)
- Language Management: Managing military language (2009) (0)
- Treaties, Charters and Other Supranational Sources of Rights (2021) (0)
- Comments on Bernard Spolsky's "Bridging the Gap: A General Theory of Second Language Learning". The Author Responds (1989) (0)
- The Languages of the Jews: The Jews of Spain and their languages (2014) (0)
- The Languages of the Jews: From statehood to Diaspora (2014) (0)
- Additional services for Language Teaching (2013) (0)
- Obituary: Robert Cooper (2012) (0)
- Evaluation of Research on Bilingual Education for American Indians. A Position Paper. (1970) (0)
- Roca, Ana (ed.). Research on Spanish in the United States: Linguistic Issues and Challenges; Anderson, Ronald James. Ashéninka Stories of Change (2002) (0)
- Analyzing Peircean theory and its related theories, Backhaus then addresses the complex task of defining a public sign. Referring to the working definition of the LL term given by Bourhis (2008) (0)
- Language Policy: Monolingual polities under pressure (2003) (0)
- Qinsheng Zhou: Ethnic Minority Languages in China: Policy and Practice (2021) (0)
- Military Language Policy and Management (2021) (0)
- Language Management: Managing languages at the supranational level (2009) (0)
- Language and Bicultural Education. (1978) (0)
- Of English Marks and American Reviewers. (1990) (0)
- Language Management: Managing public linguistic space (2009) (0)
- A modified and enriched theory of language policy (and management) (2018) (0)
- Language Policy: Two monolingual polities – Iceland and France (2003) (0)
- Some National Language Policies (2021) (0)
- Management Agencies and Advocates (2021) (0)
- Endangerment and Language Shift (2021) (0)
- Social Dimensions of Assessment and Testing (2016) (0)
- Economic Pressure and Neoliberalism (2021) (0)
- Ritu Jain (ed.): Multilingual Singapore: language policies and linguistic realities, Routledge, London and New York, 2021, 240 pp, Pb, $44.95, ISBN 978-10-320-0043-5 (2021) (0)
- American Indian Bilingual Education (1977) (0)
- Li Yuming (2015): Language Planning in China (2018) (0)
- The Languages of the Jews: References (2014) (0)
- The Languages of the Jews: Three languages in Hellenistic and Roman Palestine (2014) (0)
- The Languages of the Jews: Is Hebrew an endangered language? (2014) (0)
- Language Policy: Monolingual polities with recognized linguistic minorities (2003) (0)
- Language Policy: Resisting language shift (2003) (0)
- Learning spaces, learning management, and learning anchors in the ELT classroom in the Philippines: Contexts and directions (2018) (0)
- Analytical Bibliography of Navajo Reading Materials. Navajo Reading Study, Progress Report No. 3. (1969) (0)
- Islam and the Orient (2014) (0)
- Miriam Isaacs & Lewis Glinert (eds.), Pious voices: Languages among Ultra-Orthodox Jews. (International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 138.) Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1990. Pp. 187. Pb $46.00. (2001) (0)
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