Jo Anne Kleifgen: 2 books
Communicative Practices at Work
Multimodality and Learning in a High-Tech Firm
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
This book examines communicative practices in a circuit-board manufacturing plant in California's Silicon Valley, where the employees come from diverse ethnolinguistic backgrounds, their activities involve the use of high-tech equipment and their practices are shaped by, and sometimes contest, local...
Educating Emergent Bilinguals
Policies, Programs, and Practices for English Learners
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Now available in a revised and expanded edition, this accessible guide introduces readers to the issues and controversies surrounding the education of language minority students in the United States. What makes this book a perennial favorite are the succinct descriptions of alternative practices for...