Bilingual Education category: 1602 books
Race, Culture, and Identities in Second Language Education
Exploring Critically Engaged Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
The concept and construct of race is often implicitly yet profoundly connected to issues of culture and identity. Meeting an urgent need for empirical and conceptual research that specifically explores critical issues of race, culture, and identities in second language education, the key questions...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
The role of English in the global arena has prompted official language-in-education policy makers to adopt language education policies to enable its citizens to be proficient in English and to access knowledge. Local educational contexts in different countries have implemented English education in...
Transnational Writing Education
Theory, History, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2018
Arguing that writing teachers need to enable students to recognize, negotiate with, deconstruct, and transcend national, racial, ethnic, and linguistic boundaries, this volume proposes a "transnational" framework as an alternative approach to literacy education and as a vital component to cultivating...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
This volume brings together a multiplicity of voices--both theoretical and practical--on the complex politics, challenges, and strategies of educating students--in North America and worldwide--who are speakers of diverse or nonstandard varieties of English, creoles, and hybrid varieties of English,...
The Cultural Proficiency Journey
Moving Beyond Ethical Barriers Toward Profound School Change
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2010
Because equitable education for every child is a moral imperative!
Providing an excellent education to every child is truly a moral imperative, requiring profound change by organizations and individuals. Recognizing that true change begins from within, this compelling book shows how educators...
CoTeaching and Other Collaborative Practices in The EFL/ESL Classroom
Rationale, Research, Reflections, And Recommendations
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Much has been written about the cognitive and academic language needs of those learning English as a new language (be it a second language in the United States or other Englishspeaking countries or as a foreign language in all other parts of the world). Many guidebooks and professional development...
Excuse Me, Your Participle's Dangling
How to Use Grammar to Make Your Writing Powers Soar
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Excuse Me, Your Participle’s Dangling will give you all the bare essentials of grammar that you need to write like a pro. The book also offers a simple yet foolproof method of writing under pressure, the key to success in any college program or workplace. If you’re a businessperson, college student,...
The Haitian Creole Language
History, Structure, Use, and Education
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2010
The Haitian Creole Language is the first book that deals broadly with a language that has too long lived in the shadow of French. With chapters contributed by the leading scholars in the study of Creole, it provides information on this language's history; structure; and use in education, literature,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
The flipped classroom methodology is one of the latest innovations in the field of education, challenging traditional notions of the classroom experience. Applying this methodology to language learning has the potential to further engage students and drive their understanding of key concepts. Flipped...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
This book presents the latest research on understanding language teacher identity and development for both novice and experienced researchers and educators, and introduces non-experts in language teacher education to key topics in teacher identity research. It covers a wide range of backgrounds, themes,...
on Becoming A Language Educator
Personal Essays on Professional Development
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
These personal essays by first and second language researchers and practitioners reflect on issues, events, and people in their lives that helped them carve out their career paths or clarify an important dimension of their missions as educators. Their narratives depict the ways in which professionals...
Talent Development for English Language Learners
Identifying and Developing Potential
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Talent Development for English Language Learners offers concrete guidance to teachers, schools, and administrators seeking to maximize the potential of all of their students. Each chapter will focus thematically on an issue relevant to developing the talents and potential of gifted English language...
by Socorro G. Herrera
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Culturally responsive pedagogy, literacy, and English learner education expert Socorro Herrera has updated this bestseller to clarify, focus, and redefine concepts for the continued professional development of educators serving culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) populations. Teaching strategies...
Educating Latino Boys
An Asset-Based Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
Bring out the best in your male Latino students!
Largely misunderstood and often underserved, Latino boys miss out on key academic opportunities that hinder their achievement and success in school and beyond. Educator David Campos, a champion of higher education for Latino boys, provides strategies...