Learning and Not Learning English

Learning and Not Learning English

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  • Author: Guadalupe Valdes
  • Publisher: Teachers College Press
  • ISBN: 0807775444
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 191


Learning English at School

Learning English at School

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  • Author: Kelleen Toohey
  • Publisher: Multilingual Matters
  • ISBN: 9781853594816
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 164

This text considers the application of sociocultural theory to understanding how minority language background children learn English in the context of their classrooms. Based on a longitudinal ethnography, it is suggested that understanding the pivotal role of social interaction in learning implies new perspectives both for SLA research and for effective instructional practice.


Teaching and Learning English in the Primary School

Teaching and Learning English in the Primary School

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  • Author: Gila A. Schauer
  • Publisher: Springer Nature
  • ISBN: 3030232573
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 297

This book is the first comprehensive investigation of interlanguage pragmatic issues in a primary school context that is based on both primary school teachers’ statements on their own teaching realities, views and preferences, and a thorough investigation of materials used by teachers and recommended by teacher educators in the state the primary schools are located in. It offers a contrastive analysis of primary school learners acquiring English in a typical English as a foreign language school context and their age peers in the same state that are exposed to English in a school immersion context. This book will be of interest to scholars, researchers, educators in higher education that focus on English language teaching, second language acquisition and applied linguistics. It is also intended for students who are planning to become primary school teachers of English as a foreign language.


Preparing English Learners for College and Career

Preparing English Learners for College and Career

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  • Author: Maria Santos
  • Publisher: Teachers College Press
  • ISBN: 0807759252
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 177

How do school communities create environments that fully prepare both English learners and dual-language learners for colleges and careers? Profiling six high-performing high schools, the authors identify design elements and shared values that were key factors in yielding extraordinary results. These include a school-wide language development framework dynamic assessment practices and intensive social-emotional support.


Promoting the Educational Success of Children and Youth Learning English

Promoting the Educational Success of Children and Youth Learning English

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  • Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
  • Publisher: National Academies Press
  • ISBN: 0309455405
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 529

Educating dual language learners (DLLs) and English learners (ELs) effectively is a national challenge with consequences both for individuals and for American society. Despite their linguistic, cognitive, and social potential, many ELsâ€"who account for more than 9 percent of enrollment in grades K-12 in U.S. schoolsâ€"are struggling to meet the requirements for academic success, and their prospects for success in postsecondary education and in the workforce are jeopardized as a result. Promoting the Educational Success of Children and Youth Learning English: Promising Futures examines how evidence based on research relevant to the development of DLLs/ELs from birth to age 21 can inform education and health policies and related practices that can result in better educational outcomes. This report makes recommendations for policy, practice, and research and data collection focused on addressing the challenges in caring for and educating DLLs/ELs from birth to grade 12.


Transforming Schools for English Learners

Transforming Schools for English Learners

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  • Author: Debbie Zacarian
  • Publisher: Corwin Press
  • ISBN: 1412990408
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 201

Whether you are just beginning to work with or trying to improve the outcomes of English learners, this book provides a comprehensive framework for educating a growing population of public school english learners. Each chapter focuses on a key element of EL education programming as it relates to the entire school. The author uses research-based principles and practices to address such critical topics as: selecting the appropriate program model for your school; managing time appropriately for English language development and content learning; making data-driven decisions using effective measures of student prerformance; and effectively using Response to Intervention (RTI). The author summarizes the key Supreme Court cases that led to the federal regulations for educating ELs. Also included is a framework for designing and delivering high quality instruciton, enhancing parental engagement, and creating a learning environment and whole-school community where ELs flourish.


Saving Schools

Saving Schools

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  • Author: Paul E. Peterson
  • Publisher: Harvard University Press
  • ISBN: 9780674050112
  • Category : Biography & Autobiography
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 338

In this book Peterson interprets the history of American schools by placing major educational reformers in the context of their times and relates their thinking to our own era by scrutinizing the often unanticipated consequences of their commitments and ideas. These extraordinary individuals provided the critical ideas and articulated the ideals that motivated many others to search for ways to save the schools from the limitations in which they were embedded: Horace Mann, John Dewey, Martin Luther King, Al Shanker, William Bennett, and James S. Coleman. The drive to centralize was pervasive despite repeatedly expressed reform desire to customize education. Peterson argues that education has become an increasingly labor intensive industry that must reverse direction and become more capital intensive or it will descend in quality. Fortunately, technological change is making it possible radically alter the way in which education services are delivered, providing a new chance to save our schools.


Digital-Age Teaching for English Learners

Digital-Age Teaching for English Learners

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  • Author: Heather Rubin
  • Publisher: Corwin Press
  • ISBN: 1071824430
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 177

This edition shows educators how to bridge the digital divide that disproportionally affects culturally and linguistically diverse learners with research-informed technology models. Designed to support equitable access to engaging and enriching digital-age education opportunities for English learners, it includes technology integration models and instructional strategies, sample lessons, collaboration tips, educator vignettes with creative solutions, and discussion questions.


Advocating for English Learners

Advocating for English Learners

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  • Author: Diane Staehr Fenner
  • Publisher: Corwin Press
  • ISBN: 1452257698
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 264

"English learners (ELs) are the fastest-growing segment of the K-12 population. But Els and their families, who are in the process of learning English and navigating an often-unfamiliar education system, may not have a voice powerful enough to articulate their needs. Consequently, all teachers and administrators must advocate for this all-important diverse group of students who will become tomorrow's workforce."--Back cover.


Bridging Teaching, Learning and Assessment in the English Language Classroom

Bridging Teaching, Learning and Assessment in the English Language Classroom

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  • Author: Tijen Akşit
  • Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • ISBN: 1527521435
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 162

Learning English as a foreign language in any formal education context requires opportunities for learners and teachers to give and receive feedback on the teaching learning process as it is happening. These opportunities could be created via various in-class activities specifically designed for this purpose. Teachers who create and use these diagnostic opportunities effectively detect what learners need in a timely fashion, and provide remedial teaching in the right time and mode, so that chances can be created for learners to improve their learning. There is no one universally accepted way of how to do this, however, with various approaches for collecting, analyzing and reviewing data for this purpose. This book encapsulates the unbreakable relationship between teaching, learning and assessment through a range of articles which scrutinize assessment from a wide spectrum, ranging from the role of assessment in language learning to ELT teacher assessment literacy, from the use of technology in classroom-based assessment to practicing teachers’ reflections on their teacher classroom action research, and from the role of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) to empirical data analysis.