Bilingualism / ESL

Originally published in 1992. Ethnographic studies of multi-ethnic classrooms and schools in their community context are presented in this excellent volume with a view to informing practice and policy concerning the education of language minority students and teachers...

As college classrooms have become more linguistically diverse, ESOL professionals and faculty across the disciplines are trying to meet the challenge of teaching students of differing linguistic backgrounds. ..

This volume is a path-breaking contribution to the study of efforts of Diaspora, indigenous, and minority groups, broadly defined, to use education (formal and informal) to sustain cultural continuity while grappling with the influences and demands of wider globalizing, nationalizing, or other homog..

This book presents case studies of literacy practices as shaped by culture, language, community,&power.The studies cover a range of contexts&explore a number of relevant dimensions in the evolving picture of literacy as situated, multiple,&social...

This book provides balanced treatment of theory and practice of language description and its role in ELT via systematic examination of the major linguistic theories and their approaches to language description and concrete examples of how they can be used in teaching English language structures and ..

A Co-Publication of Routledge, the Center for Applied Linguistics, and the International Reading Association _x000D_ This book is a shorter version of Developing Literacy in Second-Language Learners, reporting the findings of the National Literacy Panel on Language-Minority Children and Youth. This ..

This book describes dialect differences in American English and their impact on education and everyday life. It explores some of the major issues that confront educational practitioners and suggests what practitioners can do to recognize students’..

A discussion of writing, covering ESL, basic writing and first-year composition. It features essays which are arranged in four sections on: teaching writing; becoming a writer; responding to writing; and beyond the writing class...

This primary textbook for courses on theories & methods of teaching at the college writing level brings together seminal articles, followed by questions for reflection, writing, and discussion...

This volume is the first to explore links between the Russian linguist Mikhail Bakhtin's theoretical insights about language and practical concerns with second and foreign language learning and teaching...

This carefully balanced set of studies and practitioner research projects carried out in various learning contexts around the world highlights cutting-edge research in the use of digital learning technologies in language classrooms and in online learning, providing an overview of recent developments..

This hands-on, practical guide for ESL/EFL teachers and teacher educators outlines, for those who are new to doing action research, what it is and how it works. Straightforward and reader friendly, it introduces the concepts and offers a step-by-step guide to going through an action research process..