In this interview with Terry A. Osborn, whose work set the stage for the momentum that is currently building around social justice in language education, Dr. Osborn shares his perspective on the past, present, and future of language education.

Scholarship on dialect diversity in classrooms has yielded two seemingly incompatible lines of research. Although numerous pedagogical approaches have been shown to provide productive alternatives to traditional responses to stigmatized dialects, research on public perceptions and teachers' attitudes suggests that negative beliefs about…

Discusses "Researching Language," a full-length study dealing with questions about power and method in a range of social science disciplines, including anthropology, sociology, and sociolinguistics. The discussion asks whether the balance of power between researchers and research subjects can be altered. (VWL)

Comments on a previous article that deals with questions on researching language, and suggests that the assumption driving the arguments contained in that article is that social scientists typically possess a power-advantage over their research subjects. It is argued that such an assumption is implausible. (VWL)

Responds to an article dealing with issues of method in researching language, and addresses the question "what is research and why are linguists doing research?" (VWL)

Comments to a previous article focusing on power and method in linguistic research. It is suggested that the research approach highlighted in the article has indisputable merit, but that the blueprint is vague and difficult to know when to put into practice. (VWL)

Comments to a previous article focusing on power and method in linguistic research. It is suggested that the previous article does not succeed in bridging the gap between moral and metasocial considerations concerning the use of knowledge and similar considerations concerning mode of acquisition. (VWL)

Comments to a previous article focusing on power and method in linguistic research, recognizing the admirable motives advocated in the methodology put forth in the article and suggesting the need to address additional issues. (VWL)

Comments to a previous article focusing on power and method in linguistic research. It is suggested that the method of empowering research subjects can go seriously wrong and that no linguistic research can be driven by ideas of empowering or disempowering alone. (VWL)

Comments to a previous article focusing on power and method in linguistic research or more specifically on empowering research participants. (VWL)

Comments to a previous article focusing on power and method in linguistic research or more specifically on empowering research participants. (VWL)

Comments to a previous article focusing on power and method in linguistic research or more specifically on empowering research participants. This comment suggests that understanding research talk can be facilitated by knowing something about the larger group of speech activities of which it is but one normal representative form. (VWL)

Comments to a previous article focusing on power and method in linguistic research or more specifically on empowering research participants. (VWL)

Responds to various positive and negative comments on an article focusing on power and method in linguistic research and describing a method for empowering research participants. (VWL)

Comments to a previous article focusing on power and method in linguistic research. It is suggested that the method advocated is worthwhile, modifiable for other disciplines, and should be read and discussed by scholars from many fields. (VWL)