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by Eugene E. Garcia, Erminda Garcia
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Young Hispanic children are the largest and fastest growing ethnic minority population in the United States, representing diverse racial, linguistic, and cultural backgrounds. Educational skills and achievement lag significantly for this population, creating an unacceptable achievement gap at the...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
This volume offers the most comprehensive, up-to-date description of the wide array of second language programs currently available to undergraduate students in the United States and abroad. It brings together, for the first time, detailed descriptions of programs in foreign language, English as a...
Ways of Studying Children
An Observation Manual for Early Childhood Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Since the publication of the widely used Ways of Studying Children in 1959, young children and education have experienced many new influences, including an increased emphasis on learning in the early years. Focusing on children under the age of eight, this enlarged edition analyzes theories and practices...
by Alan Davies
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2016
Applied Linguistics is still a growing field. Key texts and handbooks have appeared in recent years and international applied linguistics conferences and professional associations occur regularly. While Applied Linguistics continues to attract new entrants and to generate new strands of research,...
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...
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by Sandra G. Kouritzin
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1999
This book contributes to the understanding of first-language loss in both immigrant and indigenous communities in (at least) three ways. First, it provides insight into the process of language loss and the factors contributing to it. Second, it attempts to define, from an insider perspective, what...
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...
State Assessment Policy and Practice for English Language Learners
A National Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
State Assessment Policy and Practice for English Language Learners presents three significant studies, each examining a different aspect of states' strategies for including English language learners in state assessments.
*an Analysis of State Assessment Policies Regarding Accommodations for...
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...
Vindicated
Closing the Hispanic Achievement Gap through English Immersion
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2018
This book focuses on how to best educate Hispanic English-limited students who tend to be the ethnic group most likely to be taught in their native language and, consequently, to do poorly when compared to all immigrant children limited in English. It provides evidence that the Hispanic students have...