Teaching Reading to English Learners, Grades 6 - 12 by Margarita Espino Calderon

Retool your whole school for EL achievement For any student, middle and high school can be challenging. But for an English learner or striving reader—and the myriad words, phrases, syntax, texts, and concepts they must negotiate on a daily...

Teaching Emergent Bilingual Students: Flexible Approaches in an Era of New Standards by C Patrick Proctor

Recent educational reform initiatives such as the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) largely fail to address the needs--or tap into the unique resources--of students who are developing literacy skills in both English and a home language. This book...

Listening and Reading for English Language Learners: Collaborative Teaching for Greater Success with K-6 by Dorit Sasson

This book provides an overview designed to help educators collaborate more effectively in the areas of content area literacy for the sake of their K-6 ELL students. The book weaves the practical and theoretical aspects of collaboration and suggests ways...

Teaching ESL/EFL Listening and Speaking by I S P Nation

Using a framework based on principles of teaching and learning, this guide for teachers and teacher trainees provides a wealth of suggestions for helping learners at all levels of proficiency develop their listening and speaking skills and fluency. By...

Teaching and Researching Listening by Michael Rost

Now in its third edition, Teaching and Researching Listening renews its commitment to provide language educators, practitioners, and researchers in the fields of ESL, TESOL, and Applied Linguistics with a state-of-the-art treatment of the linguistic,...

Thinking and Speaking in Two Languages by Aneta Pavlenko

Until recently, the history of debates about language and thought has been a history of thinking of language in the singular. The purpose of this volume is to reverse this trend and to begin unlocking the mysteries surrounding thinking and speaking in...

Teaching and Learning in Multilingal Contexts: Sociolinguistic and Educational Perspectives by Agnieszka Otwinowska

It is clearly illogical to search for one good, universal solution for multilingual education when educational contexts differ so widely due to demographic and social factors. The studies in this volume seek to investigate not only whether certain...

Teacher Collaboration and Talk in Multilingual Classrooms by Angela Creese

This book examines the interactions of collaborating teachers in multilingual classrooms and how these impact on what counts as knowledge in the secondary school classroom. The study takes a linguistic ethnographic approach and considers the discourses...

Language, Space and Power: A Critical Look at Bilingual Education by Samina Hadi-Tabassum

 Language, Space, and Power describes the sociolinguistic and sociocultural life of a Spanish-English dual language classroom in which attention is given to not only the language learning processes at hand but also to how race, ethnicity, and gender...

Pathways to Multilingualism: Evolving Perspectives in Immersion Education by Tara Williams Fortune

In this volume an international roster of scholars offers theoretical perspectives, research reviews and empirical studies on teaching, learning and language development in immersion education. The editors bring together research from three distinct...

Bilingual and Multilingual Education in the 21st Century: Building on Experience by Christian Abello-Contesse

This book includes the work of specialists working in various educational contexts to create comprehensive coverage of current bilingual initiatives. Themes covered include issues in language use in classrooms; participant perspectives on bilingual...

Bilingual Education: An Introductory Reader by Ofelia Garcia

The book contains a comprehensive selection of outstanding and influential articles on bilingual education in the United States and the rest of the world. It is designed for instructors and students, with questions and activities based on each of the...