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  • Collaborative Research in Multilingual Classrooms

    Series Book 1 - Critical Language and Literacy Studies
    Reporting on the research collaborations of a group of teachers, graduate students and a university professor, this book weaves together their collective insights about how classrooms might be better for students of diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds, abilities and socio-economic circumstances, and better for teachers as well. It also shows how research collaborations can result in rich ... Read more

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    The Rise and Fall of Federal Bilingual Education in the United States, 1960-2001

    Series series Al Filo, Mexican American Studies Series
    Bilingual education is one of the most contentious and misunderstood educational programs in the country. It raises significant questions about this countrys national identity, the nature of federalism, power, ethnicity, and pedagogy. In Contested Policy , Guadalupe San Miguel, Jr., studies the origins, evolution, and consequences of federal bilingual education policy from 1960 to 2001, with ... Read more

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  • Can We Talk about Race?

    And Other Conversations in an Era of School Resegregation

    Series series Race, Education, and Democracy
    **Major new reflections on race and schools—by the best-selling author of “Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?“A Simmons College/Beacon Press Race, Education, and Democracy Series Book**Beverly Daniel Tatum emerged on the national scene in 1997 with “Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?,“ a book that spoke to a wide audience about the ... Read more

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  • The Education of English Language Learners

    Research to Practice

    Series series Challenges in Language and Literacy
    This comprehensive volume describes evidence-based strategies for supporting English language learners (ELLs) by promoting meaningful communication and language use across the curriculum. Leading experts explain how and why learning is different for ELLs and pinpoint specific best practices for the classroom, illustrated with vivid examples. Particular attention is given to ways in which learning ... Read more

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  • Reading Instruction for Diverse Classrooms

    Research-Based, Culturally Responsive Practice

    Series series Solving Problems in the Teaching of Literacy
    This practical, teacher-friendly book provides indispensable guidance for implementing research-based reading instruction that is responsive to students' diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds. Structured around the “big five” core topics of an effective reading program—phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension—the book explains tried-and-true teaching strategies for ... Read more

    $44.79 CAD

  • Linguistically Appropriate Practice

    A Guide for Working with Young Immigrant Children

    This path-breaking book provides a convincing argument for the importance of children's home languages and the benefits of dual- and multi-language learning. A new classroom practice known as Linguistically Appropriate Practice (LAP) offers guidance for those working with young children who arrive in childcare centres and schools with little or no proficiency in the classroom language. ... Read more

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  • Language and Literacy Development in Bilingual Settings

    Series series Challenges in Language and Literacy
    Grounded in state-of-the-art research, this book explores how English language learners develop both the oral language and literacy skills necessary for school success. Chapters examine the cognitive bases of English acquisition, and how the process is different for children from alphabetic (such as Spanish) and nonalphabetic (such as Chinese) language backgrounds. The book addresses a key ... Read more

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  • English Last: True Accounts of Teaching in China

    Teaching ESL, #2

    Series Book 2 - Teaching ESL
    When it comes to teaching in China, money's first and English is last. Education takes a backseat to entertainment, and learning isn't nearly as important as having fun. If you're planning on teaching in China you need to know this. This book gives it to you straight.I spent 5 years teaching English in China. If you want to know how to teach ESL classes, I'll tell you what works and what doesn't ... Read more

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  • Language, Culture, and Teaching

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    Series series Language, Culture, and Teaching Series
    Distinguished multiculturalist Sonia Nieto speaks directly to current and future teachers in this thoughtful integration of a selection of her key writings with creative pedagogical features. Offering information, insights, and motivation to teach students of diverse cultural, racial, and linguistic backgrounds, examples are included throughout to illustrate real-life dilemmas about diversity that ... Read more

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  • Language, Literacy and Diversity

    Moving Words

    Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Multilingualism
    Language, Literacy and Diversity brings together researchers who are leading the innovative and important re-theorization of language and literacy in relation to social mobility, multilingualism and globalization. The volume examines local and global flows of people, language and literacy in relation to social practice; the role (and nature) of boundary maintenance or disruption in global, ... Read more

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  • Beats, Rhymes, and Classroom Life

    Hip-Hop Pedagogy and the Politics of Identity

    For over a decade, educators have looked to capitalize on the appeal of hip-hop culture, sampling its language, techniques, and styles as a way of reaching out to students. But beyond a fashionable hipness, what does hip-hop have to offer our schools? In this revelatory new book, Marc Lamont Hill shows how a serious engagement with hip-hop culture can affect classroom life in extraordinary ways. ... Read more

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