1st Edition

Helping Bilingual Pupils to Access the Curriculum

By Geri Smyth Copyright 2003
    124 Pages
    by David Fulton Publishers

    124 Pages
    by David Fulton Publishers

    This book offers practical guidance for teachers working with bilingual pupils in mainstream primary and secondary education and aims to help teachers make the curriculum as accessible as possible to these children. It offers examples of the good practice that has evolved around teaching bilingual children in the classroom.

    Chapter 1 Language at Home/Language in the Classroom; Chapter 2 Meeting the Challenges of Teaching Bilingual Children; Chapter 3 Monolingual Teachers Working with Bilingual Parents; Chapter 4 Valuing the Multilingual and Multicultural Nature of the School Population; Chapter 5 Learning Support or Language Support?; Chapter 6 Bilingual Pupils Making Sense of a Monolingual Curriculum; Chapter 7 Overcoming the Challenges;

    Biography

    Geri Smyth