Education: Bilingualism / ESL

By Suresh Canagarajah

Winner of the AAAL Book Award 2015Winner of the Modern Language Association's Thirty-Third Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize Winner of the BAAL Book Prize 2014 Translingual Practice: Global Englishes and Cosmopolitan Relations introduces a new way of looking at the use of English within a…

Paperback – 2012-11-30
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By Gladis Kersaint, Denisse R. Thompson, Mariana Petkova

Today's mathematics classrooms increasingly include students for whom English is a second language. Teaching Mathematics to English Language Learners provides readers a comprehensive understanding of both the challenges that face English language learners (ELLs) and ways in which educators might…

Paperback – 2012-11-27
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Teaching English Language Learners across the Curriculum

By Maureen Snow Andrade, Norman W. Evans

Based on the assumptions that students expect feedback and want to improve, and that improvement is possible, this book introduces a framework that applies the theory of self-regulated learning to guide second language writing teachers’ response to learners at all stages of the writing process.…

Paperback – 2012-10-29
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ESL & Applied Linguistics Professional Series

Edited by Silvia Sovic, Margo Blythman

In the current economic climate, more than ever, international students provide an important income to universities. They represent much-needed funds for many institutions, but they also come with their own diverse variety of characteristics and requirements. This insightful book offers a critical…

Paperback – 2012-10-24
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By John R. Rickford, Julie Sweetland, Angela E. Rickford, Thomas Grano

More than 50 years of scholarly attention to the intersection of language and education have resulted in a rich body of literature on the role of vernacular language varieties in the classroom. This field of work can be bewildering in its size and variety, drawing as it does on the diverse methods,…

Paperback – 2012-10-05
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NCTE-Routledge Research Series

Edited by James W. Tollefson

How do language policies in schools create inequalities among learners? How do policies marginalize some students while granting privilege to others? How do language policies in education serve the interests of dominant groups within societies? How can linguistic minorities further their interests…

Paperback – 2012-08-25
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By Jennifer Lynn Craig

Clearly explaining writing-across-the-curriculum (WAC) pedagogy for English language teachers in university settings, this book offers an accessible guide to integrating writing and speaking tasks across the curriculum and in disciplinary courses. Teachers will find this book useful because its…

Paperback – 2012-07-11
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By John Foster

Bringing a fresh and lively approach to language study, Learning about Language is an exciting collection of fun, creative activities and warm-up games that explore the multifaceted nature of the English language. For use in any primary classroom, this book will help develop the pupil’s knowledge…

Paperback – 2012-06-28
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Edited by Liz England

More and more, ESL/EFL teachers are required by their employers to obtain a Master’s degree in TESOL. Thousands of ESL/EFL teachers are acquiring professional skills and knowledge through online and distance education instructional models. Filling a growing need and making an important contribution…

Paperback – 2012-06-18
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Edited by Alisa Belzer

This volume revisits, problematizes, and expands the meaning of quality in the context of adult basic education. Covering a wide range of relevant topics, it includes contributors from the realms of both policy and practice and encompasses both the major instructional areas – reading, writing, and…

Paperback – 2012-05-11
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By H.D. Adamson

In this book H.D. Adamson reviews scholarship in sociolinguistics and second language acquisition, comparing theories of variation in first and second-language speech, with special attention to the psychological underpinnings of variation theory. Interlanguage is what second language learners speak…

Paperback – 2012-03-29
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Edited by Yasuko Kanno, Linda Harklau

Currently, linguistic minority students　– students who speak a language other than English at home – represent 21% of the entire K-12 student population and 11% of the college student population. Bringing together emerging scholarship on the growing number of college-bound linguistic minority…

Paperback – 2012-03-21
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