Bilingualism / ESL

Over the last two decades, Chile has been driven by an economic imperative to build the capability of citizens to be competent in the English language, resulting in a high demand for teachers of English. As a consequence, teacher education programs have modified their curricula to meet the challenge..

Bringing together a comprehensive range of extended research-based chapters, this book provides comprehensive insight into policy, research, and practical aspects of teacher preparation for English teachers at pre-service level across multiple contexts in Asia...

This book is an exploration of the desirability and feasibility of English Medium Instruction (EMI) in specific university settings in Southeast Asia. It will review historical and contemporary trends and changes to EMI, and elicit the perceptions of a number of applied linguists in a range of Asian..

This edited book is about the rationale, practice and classroom implementation of English-medium instruction courses in Chinese universities. It covers the widespread implementation of English-medium courses in China across different disciplines, and it provides a window for researchers and practiti..

This text provides both ESL and mainstream teachers with the background and expertise necessary to plan and implement reading programs that match the particular needs and abilities of their students. Comprehensive and research-based, it applies current ESL and reading research and theory to practice..

This book describes the challenges ESL students in U.S. postsecondary institutions face when studying in a second language, and offers suggestions for how teachers, advisors, tutors, and institutions might provide support that meets their needs...

Explores ethical issues & concerns commonly encountered by ESL faculty in practical terms & relates them to the classroom environment. Each chap includes several scenarios to generate discussion, debate, & reflection. Intended for ESL faculty & as a text..

Seeking to expand policy discourses in ways that lead to social justice for all, this volume uses a critical sociocultural and ethnographic approach to address a variety of pressing language planning and policy issues, contextualized in case studies...

Seeking to expand policy discourses in ways that lead to social justice for all, this volume uses a critical sociocultural and ethnographic approach to address a variety of pressing language planning and policy issues, contextualized in case studies...

This volume provides an up-to-date review of sociolinguistic research and practice aimed at improving education for students who speak vernacular varieties of U.S. English, English-based Creole languages, and non-English languages, and presents socioculturally based approaches that acknowledge and b..

This volume provides an up-to-date review of sociolinguistic research and practice aimed at improving education for students who speak vernacular varieties of U.S. English, English-based Creole languages, and non-English languages, and presents socioculturally based approaches that acknowledge and b..

An important contribution to the understanding of first-language loss in both immigrant and indigenous communities, drawing on data from 21 life-history case studies of adults who had lost their first language while learning English...