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Classroom Instruction That Works with English Language Learners by Jane Hill; Kathleen Flynn
ASCD 2006; US$ 26.95As more and more English language learners (ELLs) are included in mainstream classrooms, what can we do to ensure that they understand academic content and develop their English language skills? To answer this question, authors Jane Hill and Kathleen Flynn have examined decades of research, interviewed mainstream teachers with ELLs in their classrooms, and reviewed the classroom recommendations from Marzano, Pickering, and Pollock?s seminal Classroom Instruction That Works (2001) through an ELL lens. more...
Two Way Aboriginal Schoolingby Stephen Harris
Aboriginal Studies Press 1990; US$ 17.50Since the late 1970s, many Aboriginal communities have been moving towards control of their children?s education. Different models of bicultural or ?two way? schooling are emerging, in which Aboriginal language and culture are taught as legitimate ends in themselves, not merely as a means to more effective learning of English. Stephen Harris explores the theoretical concept of bicultural schooling and its practical implication sin the classroom. more...
Bilingualism in the Primary Schoolby Richard Mills; Jean Mills
Routledge 1993; US$ 53.95Richly based on case study material, this book helps primary teachers to understand the experience of bilingual children and shows it as a benefit rather than a hindrance in the classroom. more...
Linguistic Culture and Language Policyby Harold Schiffman
Routledge 1998; US$ 53.95By looking closely at the multilingual deomocracies of India, France and the USA, Harold F. Schiffman examines how language policy is primarily a social construct based on belief systems, attitudes and myths. more...
Teaching Multicultured Studentsby Alex Moore
RoutledgeFalmer 1999; US$ 52.95Includes suggestions for making classrooms and teaching practice more effective for bilingual and bidialectical pupils. Case studies are used to give students and teachers a voice. more...
Race, Ethnicity and Educationby David Gillborn
Routledge 1990; US$ 52.95Each volume in the Key Issues in Education series is designed to provide a precise, authoritative guide to a topic of current concern to teachers, researchers and educational policy-makers. more...
Educational Interventions for Refugee Childrenby Richard Hamilton; Dennis Moore
RoutledgeFalmer 2003; US$ 47.50By focusing on the education of refugee children, this book takes a rare look at a subject of increasing significance in current educational spheres. more...
Migration, Education and Changeby Sigrid Luchtenberg
Routledge 2004; US$ 178.00This book discusses the impact of different forms of migration on education in Europe and Australia. It considers issues such as identity, citizenship and language education. more...
Immigrants, Schooling and Social Mobilityby Hans Vermeulen; Joel Perlmann
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2000; US$ 140.00Immigrants, Schooling and Social Mobility confronts a central issue in the study of immigration and ethnicity - the opposition between culture and structure - and presents a collection of essays that transcend simplistic either/or approaches to this issue. The contributors explore educational and economic mobility of immigrant groups in Europe and America. more...
Bilingual Children's Language and Literacy Developmentby New Zealand) University of Waikato Department of General and Applied Linguistics Roger Barnard (Chairman; New Zealand) University of Waikato Ted Glynn (Foundation Professor of Teacher Education
Multilingual Matters 2003; US$ 54.95This text contains case studies relating the experience of bilingual children in various settings in New Zealand primary schools. The contexts include a Maori immersion school, a Samoan bilingual unit, and mainstream classrooms which cater for immigrant and deaf children. more...