Bilingual Education category: 1602 books
Teaching and Supporting Migrant Children in Our Schools
A Culturally Proficient Approach
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2016
General approaches to multiculturalism run the risk of overlooking an increasingly diverse student population that deserves special consideration and attention: students from immigrant backgrounds whose families toil the fields in order to provide better educational opportunities for their children....
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Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Languages and Literacies as Mobile and Placed Resources explores how languages and literacies are implicated in the complex relationship between place and mobility. It is a book that represents the next wave in literacy studies in which theories of mobility, networking and globalisation have emerged...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
This landmark volume offers an introduction to the field of teaching Arabic as a foreign or second language. Recent growth in student numbers and the demand for new and more diverse Arabic language programs of instruction have created a need that has outpaced the ability of teacher preparation programs...
Teaching World Languages for Social Justice
A Sourcebook of Principles and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2006
Teaching World Languages for Social Justice: A Sourcebook of Principles and Practices offers principles based on theory, and innovative concepts, approaches, and practices illustrated through concrete examples, for promoting social justice and developing a critical praxis in foreign language classrooms...
Cultural Validity in Assessment
Addressing Linguistic and Cultural Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
What is assessment and how is it a cultural practice? How does failure to account for linguistic and cultural variation among students jeopardize assessment validity? What is required to achieve cultural validity in assessment? This resource for practicing and prospective teachers – as well as others...
Navigating the Common Core with English Language Learners
Practical Strategies to Develop Higher-Order Thinking Skills
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
The must-have Common Core guide for every ESL/ELL instructor
Navigating the Common Core with English Language Learners is the much-needed practical guide for ESL/ELL instructors. Written by experienced teachers of English Language Learners, this book provides a sequel to the highly-regarded...
Preparing English Learners for College and Career
Lessons from Successful High Schools
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
How do school communities create environments that fully prepare both English learners and dual-language learners for colleges and careers? This valuable book profiles six high-performing high schools that had a singular focus on improving the educational outcomes of English learners. The authors...
Proud to be Different
Ethnocentric Niche Charter Schools in America
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
This is a book about ethnocentric niche charter schools. What are they? When did they first appear? From where did the term come? How do they differ from regular charter schools and from district-run traditional public schools? Each subject chapter was created by a team consisting of at least one...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
The vision of this book has been to represent the work of educators and scholars invested in moving education beyond insular models of language study and cultural awareness to more globally representative and inclusive interactions that range from the studied word to the lived experience, and from...
Schools of Promise for Multilingual Students
Transforming Literacies, Learning, and Lives
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This book introduces readers to the inner workings of schools that successfully serve multilingual students, especially those who affiliate as Latinx. Readers will meet administrators, teachers, caregivers, and community members who are working together to advance students’ learning. They do this...
by Shizhou Yang
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
The book explores the pedagogical potential of autobiographical writing in English-as-a-foreign language, approaching the topic from an educational, longitudinal, dialogical, and social perspective. Through a number of case studies, the author delineates four phases that EFL writers may experience...
Negotiating Language Policies in Schools
Educators as Policymakers
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
Educators are at the epicenter of language policy in education. This book explores how they interpret, negotiate, resist, and (re)create language policies in classrooms. Bridging the divide between policy and practice by analyzing their interconnectedness, it examines the negotiation of language education...
The Multilingual Self
An Inquiry Into Language Learning
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
This book relates the author's stories about how languages have integrated her being, and defined and formed her sense of self. The idea of writing autobiographical stories of her multilingual life came from her long-term commitment to foreign language teaching and from a recent, extremely rich and...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
This landmark volume offers an introduction to the field of teaching Arabic as a foreign or second language. Recent growth in student numbers and the demand for new and more diverse Arabic language programs of instruction have created a need that has outpaced the ability of teacher preparation programs...