Enhance the school readiness of young dual language learners with this comprehensive research volume, filled with the baseline knowledge readers need to promote and measure the progress of children learning two languages.
"Teaching Dual Language Learners is a practical guide to help early childhood educators understand the needs of and provide instruction for young dual language learners in their classroom"--
"Provides clear and concise expert responses to questions that early childhood and elementary education administrators and preschool directors ask about educating young children who are learning through two languages"--
Angèle Sancho Passe, an early childhood education consultant and writer, is trilingual and has worked with many programs serving dual-language learners. She is the author of Is Everybody Ready for Kindergarten?
"This book shows teachers how to develop a toolbox of strategies for effectively teaching and engaging dual language learners while also supporting their families from diverse backgrounds.
Teach young children English, maintain their home language, and develop the early literacy skills necessary for school readiness and success.
The chapters in this important book provide up-to-date syntheses of the research base for young ELLs on critical topics such as demographics, development of bilingualism, cognitive and neurological benefits of bilingualism, and family ...
This book answers the question what do early childhood educators need to understand to better address the linguistic, cognitive, and socioemotional needs of all DLLs in their classrooms.
Outlines the core ideas of DAP as practiced in kindergarten so teachers can deepen their everyday practice.
Promoting the Educational Success of Children and Youth Learning English: Promising Futures examines how evidence based on research relevant to the development of DLLs/ELs from birth to age 21 can inform education and health policies and ...
The book begins with in-depth coverage of child and family approaches. From there it moves onto a consideration of school- and community-based strategies.