Bilingual Education category: 1602 books
Demystifying Career Paths after Graduate School
A Guide for Second Language Professionals in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
This edited book offers concrete information and useful suggestions to graduate students who are seeking employment at institutions of higher education in North America and other parts of the world. This book also targets entrylevel faculty members who are exploring increased participation in professional...
by Mrs Vini Lander, Gianna Knowles
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2011
Most classrooms contain children from a variety of backgrounds, where home culture, religious beliefs and the family's economic situation all impact on achievement. This needs to be recognised by teachers in order to establish fair, respectful, trusting and constructive relationships with children...
English as an Additional Language
Approaches to Teaching Linguistic Minority Students
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2010
Do you have EAL students in your class? Would you like guidance on teaching your subject to EAL students? With linguistic diversity on the increase, teachers from all subject areas and levels of school education are working with students for whom English is an additional language, helping them to...
by Tove Skutnabb-Kangas
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
In this powerful, multidisciplinary book, Tove Skutnabb-Kangas shows how most indigenous and minority education contributes to linguistic genocide according to United Nations definitions. Theory is combined with a wealth of factual encyclopedic information and with many examples and vignettes. The...
EIL Education for the Expanding Circle
A Japanese Model
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
The teaching of English in the Expanding Circle, traditionally called EFL countries, has long been regarded as having no choice but to follow Inner Circle or Anglo-American norms, both in pedagogy and language models. This situation is in sharp contrast with that of the Outer Circle, or ESL countries,...
Critical Applied Linguistics
A Critical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2001
This accessible guide and introduction to critical applied linguistics provides a clear overview, highlighting problems, debates, and competing views in language education, literacy, discourse analysis, language in the workplace, translation and other language-related domains. Covering both critical...
Culturally Proficient Instruction
A Guide for People Who Teach
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
Are you doing all you can to improve teaching and learning?
Culturally proficient instruction is the result of an inside-out journey during which you explore your values and behaviors while evaluating practices of your workplace. In the newest version of their best-selling book, the...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
The place of native and non-native speakers in the role of English teachers has probably been an issue ever since English was taught internationally. Although ESL and EFL literature is awash, in fact dependent upon, the scrutiny of non-native learners, interest in non-native academics and teachers...
Learning and Not Learning English
Latino Students in American Schools
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Focusing on the lives and experiences of four Mexican children in an American middle school, the critically acclaimed author of Con Respeto examines both the policy and the instructional dilemmas that surround the English language education of immigrant children in this country. Using samples and...
Preparing Classroom Teachers to Succeed with Second Language Learners
Lessons from a Faculty Learning Community
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
This volume identifies resources, models, and specific practices for improving teacher preparation for work with second language learners. It shows how faculty positioned themselves to learn from resources, experts, preservice teachers, their own practice, and each other. The teacher education professionals...
The Education of English Language Learners
Research to Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2010
This comprehensive volume describes evidence-based strategies for supporting English language learners (ELLs) by promoting meaningful communication and language use across the curriculum. Leading experts explain how and why learning is different for ELLs and pinpoint specific best practices for the...
The Economic Status of the Hispanic Population
Selected Essays
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
In 2010, Hispanics represented one out of every six people in the U.S. (up from one out of eight in 2000), such that the economic status of this population has become increasingly important for the economic direction of the nation. This volume brings together a group of scholars who analyze a variety...
Linguistically Appropriate Practice
A Guide for Working with Young Immigrant Children
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
This path-breaking book provides a convincing argument for the importance of children's home languages and the benefits of dual- and multi-language learning. A new classroom practice known as Linguistically Appropriate Practice (LAP) offers guidance for those working with young children who arrive...
The Newcomer Student
An Educator's Guide to Aid Transitions
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
More than 50 million individuals will be forcibly displaced from their homes this year. Many will be resettled into other countries or cultures, including the United States. With specific regard to education, a growing sector of ELA instruction now caters to the unique needs of refugee and immigrant...