1st Edition

Varied Voices On Language and Literacy Learning

By Linda Lonon Blanton Copyright 2007
    192 Pages
    by Routledge

    192 Pages
    by Routledge

    "I can say with certainty that this book will add a compelling sense of depth and texture to the existing body of research in first and second language literacy."

    --Patricia Richard-Amato, California State University at Los Angeles

    Varied Voices is an ethnographic study of language and literacy learning in a culturally and linguistically diverse Moroccan school. There, children and teachers turn classrooms into social spaces as they work to build learning communities. Suitable for MATESOL courses and in-service training, Varied Voices is a must-read for all instructors working with language minority students at the elementary and secondary school levels.

    Chapter 1 Service Station Attendants and Literacy Acts; Chapter 2 Unruly Experience; Chapter 3 Views of Morocco; Chapter 4 Reading Teacher-Stories; Chapter 5 “Words in My Ears, Letters in My Head”, Marge Gruzen; Chapter 6 “I Know Because I’m Big”; Chapter 7 The Buddy System, Ann Manring;

    Biography

    Linda Lonon Blanton