Educating language-minority children
By: Diane August and Kenji Hakuta, editors ; Committee on Developing a Research Agenda on the Education of Limited-English-Proficient and Bilingual Students, Board on Children, Youth, and Families, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council, Institute of Medicine.
Contributors: August, Diane.; Hakuta, Kenji.; National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Developing a Research Agenda on the Education of Limited-English-Proficient and Bilingual Students.
Publisher: National Academy Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 118
Subjects: Linguistic minorities -- Education -- United States -- Evaluation.; Education, Bilingual -- United States -- Evaluation.; English language -- Study and teaching -- United States -- Evaluation.; Second language acquisition.
Description: This text summarizes for teachers and policy-makers what has been learned over the past three decades about educating students in schools who have come from homes in which the language back-ground is other than English.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 91-111).
Table of contents: title: Overview. Purpose and scope of the report. Terminology. Background. Organization of the report; title: Bilingualism and second-language learning. Findings. Implications; title: Cognitive aspects of school learning : literacy development and content learning. Findings. Implications; title: The social context of school learning. Findings. Implications; title: Student assessment. Findings. Implications; title: Program evaluation. Findings. Implications; title: Studies of school and classroom effectiveness. Findings. Implications.