The education of English language learners
Subtitle: research to practice
By: edited by Marilyn Shatz, Louise C. Wilkinson.
Contributors: Shatz, Marilyn.; Wilkinson, Louise Cherry.
Series: Challenges in language and literacy
Publisher: Guilford Press; The Guilford Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9781606236598
Subjects: Second language acquisition -- Study and teaching; Language and languages -- Study and teaching; Multilingualism in children; Language and culture; Sociolinguistics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The brain and language acquisition: variation in language knowledge and readiness for education / Barbara Conboy; title: The process of acquiring a first and second language / Kathryn Kohnert & Giang Pham; title: Language choice and competence: code switching and issues of social identity in young bilingual: Children /Susan Ervin-Tripp & Iliana Reyes; title: Language and literacy principles and practices in school : Ways to words: learning a second language vocabulary / Lisa Bedore, Elizabeth Pena, & Karin Boerger; title: The role of phonology in orthographically different languages / Ellen Hamilton Newman; title: Bilingualism and cognitive linkages: learning to read in different languages / Ellen Bialystok & Kathleen Peets; title: Learning English as a second language by speakers of different languages / Maria Brisk; title: Assessment and interaction: working with children and families: Communicative repertoires and English language learners / Betsy Rymes; title: What makes english hard for ELLs?: difficulty, delay, or disorder / Carol Westby & Deborah Hwa-Froelich; title: Implications for assessment and instruction / Alison Bailey; title: Extended implications for practice: families as allies / Leslie Reese & Claude Goldenberg; title: Recent research on English language and literacy instruction: what we have learned: guided: Practice for English language learners in the 21st century / Diane August, Cheryl Dressler, Claude Goldenberg, & William Saunders.