Bilingualism / ESL

As the worldwide demand for literacy continues to grow, researchers from different countries with different language backgrounds have begun examining the connection between their writing systems and literacy acquisition. This text, which derives from a N..

Volume III of the Handbook of Research in Second Language Teaching and Learning, like Volumes I and II, is a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of current research into L2/FL teaching and learning. It differs from earlier volumes in its main purpose—to provide a more in-depth discussion and de..

This landmark volume provides a broad-based, comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of current knowledge and research into second language teaching and learning. Volume II captures new and ongoing developments, research, and trends in the field...

This volume presents a multidisciplinary perspective on teaching heritage language learners. Contributors from theoretical and applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, psychology, educational policy, and pedagogy specialists explore policy and societal issues, present linguistic case studies, and disc..

In this new expanded edition of Tomás Mario Kalmar’s landmark Illegal Alphabets and Adult Biliteracy, commentaries from six distinguished scholars—Peter Elbow, Ofelia García, James Paul Gee, Hervé Varenne, Luis Vázquez León, Karen Velasquez— bring to it their own personal, professional, and (multi)d..

First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

Implementing Response-to-Intervention to Address the Needs of English-Language Learners increases school psychologists’ knowledge of intervention strategies related to ELLs through its examination of the challenges associated with evaluating ELLs and by providing a collaborative framework to enhance..

Implementing Response-to-Intervention to Address the Needs of English-Language Learners increases school psychologists’ knowledge of intervention strategies related to ELLs through its examination of the challenges associated with evaluating ELLs and by providing a collaborative framework to enhance..

More than any book to date, this one provides a comprehensive approach to designing, building, implementing and interpreting test results that validly measure the academic achievement of English language learners. It scaffolds the entire process of test development and implementation and discusses e..

Focusing on the Americas–home to 40 to 50 million Indigenous people–this book explores the history and current state of Indigenous language revitalization across this vast region. Complementary chapters on the USA and Canada, and Latin America and the Caribbean, offering a panoramic view while traci..

Bridging the fields of youth studies and language planning and policy, this book looks at Indigenous youth in multiple endangered language communities, offering new theoretical insights and drawing out implications for language planning and policy and for projects to curtail language loss...

Bridging the fields of youth studies and language planning and policy, this book looks at Indigenous youth in multiple endangered language communities, offering new theoretical insights and drawing out implications for language planning and policy and for projects to curtail language loss...