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Unit I. What Is Language And How Is It Acquired? -- Introduction To Unit I: Language And Its Acquisition / Trudy Smoke -- 1. Human Universal: The Capacity To Learn A Language / Lila R. Gleitman -- 2. New View Of Language Acquisition / Patricia K. Kuhl -- 3. Fundamentals Of Second Language Acquisition / Susan Cass -- 4. English-only Movement And Sign Language For Deaf Learners: An Instructive Parallel / David S. Martin -- 5. From Let's Flip The Script: An African American Discourse On Language, Literature, And Learning / Keith Gilyard -- 6. Hablamos Spanish And English / Ana Celia Zentella -- 7. This Is No Language: (intimate Exile) / Josip Novakovich -- 8. Russian As A Second Language / Natasha Lvovich -- 9. Language And Shame / Meena Alexander -- 10. Unfinished Knowledge: The Story Of Barbara / Ryuko Kubota -- 11. Sociolinguistics And Power / Alastair Pennycook -- Unit Ii. How Does Language Change? -- Introduction To Unit Ii: The History Of English And Language Change / Deborah M. Seymour -- 12. Language Families / Tamara M. Green -- 13. Where Did English Come From? / R.l. Trask -- 14. Norman Conquest / Charles Barber -- 15. People And Language / Kate Parry -- 16. Queen's English / Homi K. Bhabha -- 17. New Linguistic Order / Joshua A. Fishman -- 18. African Writer And The English Language / Chinua Achebe -- 19. Ebonic Need Not Be English / Ralph W. Fasold -- 20. Languages And Language Learning In The Face Of World English / John Edwards -- 21. Gender Issues In Language Change / Deborah Cameron -- 22. Homophobic Slang As Coercive Discourse Among College Students / James D. Armstrong -- Unit Iii. What Is Literacy? -- Introduction To Unit Iii: Literacy And Education In A Globalized World / Harriet Luria -- 23. Definitions Of Literacy And Their Consequences / Michael Newman -- 24. What Is Literacy? / James Paul Gee -- 25. Politics Of Teaching Literate Discourse / Lisa D. Delpit -- 26. Literacy And Learning Out Of School: A Review Of Theory And Research / Glynda Hull A