Educating Second Language Children

Educating Second Language Children
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 376
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ISBN-10 : 9780521457972
ISBN-13 : 0521457971
Rating : 4/5 (72 Downloads)

Synopsis Educating Second Language Children by : Fred Genesee

This text brings together the work of 15 elementary education experts who support an integrative approach to educating second language children. The paperback edition is a collection of articles from fourteen elementary education experts who espouse an integrative approach to second language education - one that goes beyond language teaching methodology - to cover a wide range of issues affecting the academic and social success of language minority children. The volume deals not only with second language development, but with the development of the whole child. Rather than focusing on language instruction, it addresses the entire curriculum, and instead of restricting itself to classroom learning, it examines the role of the school, family, and community.

Teaching Young Children a Second Language

Teaching Young Children a Second Language
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages : 233
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ISBN-10 : 9780313049606
ISBN-13 : 0313049602
Rating : 4/5 (06 Downloads)

Synopsis Teaching Young Children a Second Language by : Tatiana Gordon

This volume 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 questions. The second half of the volume focuses on classroom practice. Gordon provides an extensive overview of activities that have been proven to be effective with young language learners. Practical recommendations contained in these pages flow directly from the classroom. Gordon describes innovative second language lessons developed and implemented by ESL teachers who work with language learners enrolled in primary grades. The book places special emphasis on those instructional strategies that stir young language learners' interest while stimulating their linguistic and cognitive development.

Children Learning Second Languages

Children Learning Second Languages
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 306
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ISBN-10 : 9780230302297
ISBN-13 : 0230302297
Rating : 4/5 (97 Downloads)

Synopsis Children Learning Second Languages by : Annamaria Pinter

This comprehensive guide to research and debate centres around language learning in childhood, the age factor and the different contexts where language learning happens, including home and school contexts. The scope is wide, capturing examples of studies with different age groups, different methodological approaches and different languages.

One Child, Two Languages

One Child, Two Languages
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Publisher : Brookes Publishing Company
Total Pages : 284
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015073667738
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (38 Downloads)

Synopsis One Child, Two Languages by : Patton O. Tabors

Practical, engaging guide to helping early childhood educators understand and address the needs of English language learners.

Learning to Learn in a Second Language

Learning to Learn in a Second Language
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Publisher : Heinemann Educational Books
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 0435087851
ISBN-13 : 9780435087852
Rating : 4/5 (51 Downloads)

Synopsis Learning to Learn in a Second Language by : Pauline Gibbons

The book is based on the assumption that the classroom program is a major resource for language development, and that a responsive program takes into account the fact that children are not only learning a new language, but that they are learning in that language as well.

Transforming Schooling for Second Language Learners

Transforming Schooling for Second Language Learners
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Publisher : IAP
Total Pages : 297
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ISBN-10 : 9781641135092
ISBN-13 : 1641135093
Rating : 4/5 (92 Downloads)

Synopsis Transforming Schooling for Second Language Learners by : Mariana Pacheco

The purpose of Transforming Schooling for Second Language Learners: Theoretical Insights, Policies, Pedagogies, and Practices is to bring together educational researchers and practitioners who have implemented, documented, or examined policies, pedagogies, and practices in and out of classrooms and in real and virtual contexts that are in some way transforming what we know about the extent to which emergent bilinguals (EBs) learn and achieve in educational settings. In the following chapters, scholars and researchers identify both (1) the current state of schooling for EBs, from their perspective, and (2) the particular ways that policies, pedagogies, and/or practices transform schooling as it currently exists for EBs in discernible ways based on their scholarship and research. Drawing on current and seminal research in fields including second language acquisition, applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, and educational linguistics, contributing authors draw on complementary theoretical, methodological, and philosophical frameworks that attend to the social, cultural, political, and ideological dimensions of being and becoming bi/multilingual and bi/multiliterate in schools and in the United States. In sum, we are deeply committed to asserting hope, possibility, and potential to discussions and discourses about bi/multilingual students. We value the urgency around improving the conditions, experiences, and circumstances in which they are learning languages and academic content. Our aim is to highlight perspectives, conceptualizations, orientations, and ideologies that disrupt and contest legacies of deficit thinking, linguistic purism, language standardization, and racism and the racialization of ethnolinguistic minorities.

Child Bilingualism and Second Language Learning

Child Bilingualism and Second Language Learning
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Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages : 316
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ISBN-10 : 9789027260444
ISBN-13 : 9027260443
Rating : 4/5 (44 Downloads)

Synopsis Child Bilingualism and Second Language Learning by : Fangfang Li

This book focuses exclusively on child bilinguals or children exposed to a second language in various learning contexts. Through the presentation of research on how children learn the sound systems or lexicon in two languages and via different routes, the book aims to paint a comprehensive picture of child bilingualism and second language learning. In addition, the book features contributions focused on theoretical overviews and methodological approaches. Researchers from diverse disciplines such as linguistics, psychology, and speech-language pathology contributed to the book that thus represents an effort to integrate multiple views and perspectives. The book is useful for researchers, clinicians, and educators who work with children acquiring or learning a second language in different settings. It should also be of interest to university students studying bilingualism and/or second language acquisition or parents raising bilingual children.

Second Language Learning Through Cooperative Learning

Second Language Learning Through Cooperative Learning
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 156
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ISBN-10 : UVA:X004126841
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (41 Downloads)

Synopsis Second Language Learning Through Cooperative Learning by : Julie High

Introduction. Foundations : language learning through cooperative learning -- Structures -- Social roles -- Getting to know you -- Making words mine -- Guided grammar experiences -- Writing skills -- Lesson designs -- References & resources

Early Years Second Language Education

Early Years Second Language Education
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 250
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ISBN-10 : 9781134507801
ISBN-13 : 1134507801
Rating : 4/5 (01 Downloads)

Synopsis Early Years Second Language Education by : Sandie Mourão

The age for early language learning has dropped dramatically in the past decade to include children under 6 years old, yet very little published research exists to support the implementation of such programmes. Drawing on a synthesis of theory, research and practice, this edited volume makes an innovative contribution to literature concerning language education for very young children. It explores language learning in a wide range of geographical contexts with reference to second and foreign language learning, bilingualism and plurilingualism with children under the age of 6 years old. Chapters present discussion around teacher education, policy-making, international case studies, school and home-based projects, code switching and language use, and methodologies and approaches. Early Years Second Language Education: International perspectives on theory and practice will be essential reading for researchers, academics, teacher trainers, and post-graduate students in the fields of early years education, foreign and second language education, language didactics and teacher education.

Developing Reading and Writing in Second-language Learners

Developing Reading and Writing in Second-language Learners
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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Total Pages : 336
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ISBN-10 : 9780805862089
ISBN-13 : 0805862080
Rating : 4/5 (89 Downloads)

Synopsis Developing Reading and Writing in Second-language Learners by : Diane August

Reporting the findings of the National Literacy Panel on Language-Minority Children and Youth, this book concisely summarises what is known from empirical research about the development of literacy in language-minority children and youth, including development, environment, instruction, and assessment.