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New Book by C.W. Post Professor Explores the Connections
Between Language Learning, Language Use,
and Cultural Identity
Karen Ogulnick, director of the Programs of Teaching English
to Speakers of Other Languages and Bilingual Education at the
C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University in Brookville, NY,
has released a new book titled "Language Crossings: Negotiating
the Self in a Multicultural World."
Published by Teachers College Press, part of Columbia University's
Teachers College, the book is a compilation of essays written
by well-known writers who represent a diversity of cultures,
ages and nationalities. The collection explores the connection
between language use, language learning and cultural identity.
A resident of Manhattan, Ogulnick and her team present a wide
range of instructional and entertaining viewpoints. Language
Crossings is a timely reflection of the present time, where issues
of cultural identity are hotly debated in classrooms, backyards,
and the media. This volume illuminates the dynamic interaction
between the personal, the political and the theoretical. Already,
parts of the book have been presented at literary readings around
New York City.
Contributors include: Mimi Bluestone, Sharon Shelton Colangelo,
Susan Driscoll, Elizabeth Dykman, Margie English, Stephanie Hart,
George Jochnowitz, Christina Kotchemidova, Carolina Mancuso,
Rita E. Negrón Maslanek, Doug Millison, Watson R. Millison,
Raimundo Mora, Greta Hofmann Nemiroff, Myrna Nieves, Elizabeth
Nuñez, Linda Petrucelli, David Rodgers, Fredy Amilcar
Roncalla, Robert Roth, Ruby Sprott, Verena Stefan, Susan Stocker,
Cora Acebrón Tolosa, and Pramila Venkateswaran.
For additional information or to obtain a review copy, please
contact the C.W. Post Public Relations Office at (516) 299-2332
or whelfman@liu.edu.
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