Bilingual Education category: 1602 books
Research on Second Language Teacher Education
A Sociocultural Perspective on Professional Development
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2011
Embracing a sociocultural perspective on human cognition and employing an array of methodological tools for data collection and analysis, this volume documents the complexities of second language teachers’ professional development in diverse L2 teacher education programs around the world, including...
Medium of Instruction Policies
Which Agenda? Whose Agenda?
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2003
Medium of instruction policies in education have considerable impact not only on the school performance of students and the daily work of teachers, but also on various forms of social and economic (in)equality.
In many multiethnic and multilingual countries, the choice of a language for the...
by Enakshi Sengupta, Patrick Blessinger
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2019
This volume is focused on the core areas of imparting education to the refugee population and highlights the recent developments intended to meet an urgent need: that of the refugees who have no or very little previous schooling and who are in need of both language learning and furthering their studies...
African American, Creole, and Other Vernacular Englishes in Education
A Bibliographic Resource
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
More than 50 years of scholarly attention to the intersection of language and education have resulted in a rich body of literature on the role of vernacular language varieties in the classroom. This field of work can be bewildering in its size and variety, drawing as it does on the diverse methods,...
by Victor M. Hernández-Gantes, William Blank
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2008
Exploring the unique challenges of vocational education, this book provides simple and straightforward advice on how to teach English Language Learners in today's Career and Technical Education programs. The authors' teaching framework and case studies draw from common settings in which career and...
Primary School English-Language Education in Asia
From Policy to Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
In Asia, English is no longer a foreign language but a key resource for education, government, business and the general public. Whereas thirty years ago, British and American experts believed that the best way to improve the quality of English teaching was to cancel any programs below the secondary...
Skill Building for ESL and Special Education
Teacher's Text
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
Simply English is an ESL curriculum adaptable for elementary though adult learners. Its goal is to help the limited and/or non-English speaker achieve fluency in English words that are essential for everyday life. Simply English can also be incorporated into Special Education programs for students...
Black Education
A Quest for Equity and Excellence
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
This highly focused collection of papers, commissioned by the National Urban League, offers a candid and courageous portrait of black education in transition. This is a period, as the editors note in their opening remarks, that is characterized by a huge shift from federal responsibility for minority...
by Kathryn Henn-Reinke
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
Based in case studies conducted in the US, Europe, and Latin America, this book explores the feasibility and benefits of trilingual/ multilingual education in the United States. Currently, there are few programs in the country of this nature, as educators tend to conclude that English-language learners...
The Education of the Hispanic Population
Selected Essays
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
This volume brings together the latest research and scholarship on Latinos in the United States. This book is special in terms of the broad scope of topics covered and methodologies employed in pursuit of knowledge about Latino students. This collection is also unique in that it features the work of...
Learner-Centered English Language Education
The Selected Works of David Nunan
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
This carefully crafted collection provides a snapshot of the evolution of David Nunan‘s theoretical and empirical contributions to the field of second language education over the last 40 years. The volume focuses on the development of his work on second language curricula, and in particular, the...
Students With Interrupted Formal Education
Bridging Where They Are and What They Need
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
New hope for our most vulnerable English learners
“One of the guiding principles of effective English language teaching is for educators to know their students. And that in a nutshell captures the value of this book. . . . The compassion that Custodio and O’Loughlin feel for our SIFE students,...
Electronic Literacies
Language, Culture, and Power in Online Education
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1998
Electronic Literacies is an insightful study of the challenges and contradictions that arise as culturally and linguistically diverse learners engage in new language and literacy practices in online environments.
The role of the Internet in changing literacy and education has been a topic of...
Teaching and Learning in a Multilingual School
Choices, Risks, and Dilemmas
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2003
Teaching and Learning in a Multilingual School: Choices, Risks, and Dilemmas is for teachers and teacher educators working in communities that educate children who do not speak English as a first language. At the center of the book are findings from a four-year critical ethnographic case study of...