Teaching young children a second language
By: Tatiana Gordon.
Series: Teaching young children
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780275986049
Subjects: English language -- Study and teaching (Primary) -- Foreign speakers; Second language acquisition
Description: "This book addresses a gamut of questions of interest to teachers of young second language learners. Why do immigrant children leave their home countries, and what are their journeys to the United States like? How do young children adjust to the new culture? What sort of dynamic prevails in immigrant families? What are young immigrants' schooling experiences like? What are language learning processes like in young children? The first part of the book contains an overview of recent ethnographic, sociological, and psycholinguistic research concerned with answering these queries." "The book's second half focuses on classroom practice. Gordon provides an extensive overview of activities that have been proven to be effective with young language learners."--BOOK JACKET
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Language minority children in the United States; title: Second language policies and the language rights of language minority children; title: Children as language learners; title: Teaching emergent second language speakers; title: Developing literacy skills of young language learners; title: Teaching grammar in the primary level ESL classroom; title: Content-based second language teaching in primary grades; title: Multicultural second language curricula; title: Issues in ESL instruction; title: Using technology with young English language learners / by Ekaterina Nemtchinova; title: Assessment of young English language learners.