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Language Bias: The Last Back Door of Discrimination in America?

New Books in Education

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Writing in English as a Second Language

i spend day an day out working with scholars, most of whom would be traditionally called non native english scholars or english as a second language scholars. And i i find that on a date, on a weekly, if not daily, basis, we're coming up against these issues of scholars trying to write it in English. I know quite a bit about the way lecturers and professors who do not speak english is their first language. As far as writing is very different. If you're going to get reactions from editors or publishers or readers, it won't be based on the language. It'll be based on other cues, such as an name or the university come from. Maybe good may be

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