Provides first-hand information on culturally and linguistically diverse students in America, as well as instructional strategies
This guide, designed for regular classroom teachers in whose mainstream classes language-minority children are enrolled, offers background information and suggestions for helping these students become proficient in English reading and...
This book addresses questions of language education in the United States, focusing on how to teach the 3.5 million students in American public schools who do not speak English as a native language.
It should be pointed out that Eliza , in Shaw's Pygmalion , claimed that she only became a lady when Colonel Pickering began to treat her as one . Unfortunately , a number of studies report that many teachers do not treat their minority ...
A Research Agenda Committee on Developing a Research Agenda on the Education of Limited English Proficient and Bilingual Students, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences ...
Identifies some of the myths that have appeared regarding the education of language minority students in the U.S., discusses the basic research that refutes the myths, and looks at some...
Educating the Minority Language Student: Classroom and Administrative Issues
Coincidentally , as in the case of the Hunter College biology students , 45 % of the 121 Cal Poly chemistry students were born outside the mainland United States . Quite different results turned up in Florida's pan - handle at Florida ...
Sometimes you need to hear the story from the beginning.
The essays represent truly diverse viewpoints on the education of limited-English students, rare in the complex and contentious arena of bilingual education.
The Power of Culture: Teaching Across Language Difference examines the pedagogical and political supports necessary to give language minority students a high-quality education in mainstream classrooms. The U.S. educational system...