Policy and Practice in Bilingual Education

1995-01-01
Policy and Practice in Bilingual Education

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  • Author: Ofelia García
  • Publisher: Multilingual Matters
  • ISBN: 9781853592669
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 308

A collection of pivotal papers from 1986-1993 on bilingualism and bilingual education, grouped in sections on policy and legislation, implementation of bilingual policy in schools, bilingualism in instruction, and using the bilingualism of the school community. Articles conclude with suggested student activities and discussion questions, encouraging students to take on an advocacy-oriented role. The reader can be used alone or with the publisher's Foundations of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism. No index. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

International Perspectives on Bilingual Education

2010-06-01
International Perspectives on Bilingual Education

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  • Author: John E. Petrovic
  • Publisher: IAP
  • ISBN: 1607523310
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 244

This book is a defense of linguistic pluralism and language policies and practices in education that sustain that ideal. Educational meanings and models are influenced by different populations and different social and historical contexts. International comparisons can shed interesting light on the issues. Therefore, the purpose of the book is to provide scholars an international comparative understanding of language policy, its relation to educational practice, and current debates within the field. The book is divided into three sections dealing with the general topical areas of policy, practice, and controversy. This book will be of interest to policy-makers, scholars, and graduate students in the areas of bilingual education, language policy, and sociolinguistics.

Developing and Evaluating Quality Bilingual Practices in Higher Education

2021-02-05
Developing and Evaluating Quality Bilingual Practices in Higher Education

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  • Author: Fernando D. Rubio-Alcalá
  • Publisher: Multilingual Matters
  • ISBN: 1788923715
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 251

This book provides an overview and evaluation of the quality of bilingual education found in internationalised higher education institutions. Its authors focus on the multifaceted roles that language(s) play in these growing multilingual spaces and analyse and identify the many factors that account for quality multilingual degree programmes. The chapters cover themes such as language policy, quality assurance tools and indicators of quality and the authors approach issues of quality from very different and complementary perspectives, adopting for example, temporal, evaluative and developmental positioning, and taking micro, meso and macro level perspectives, while still keeping sight of the local realities, practices and possibilities. The contributions are written by authors working in Brazil, Finland, Mexico, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK and have implications for researchers, education coordinators, practitioners and other stakeholders who are looking to design, launch and evaluate new programmes in any higher education context worldwide.

Bilingual Education and Language Policy in the Global South

2013-07-18
Bilingual Education and Language Policy in the Global South

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  • Author: Jo Arthur Shoba
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1135068860
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 265

This volume considers a range of ways in which bilingual programs can make a contribution to aspects of human and economic development in the global South. The authors examine the consequences of different policies, programs, and pedagogies for learners and local communities through recent ethnographic research on these topics. The revitalization of minority languages and local cultural practices, management of linguistic and cultural diversity, and promotion of equal opportunities (both social and economic) are all explored in this light.

Dual Language Education

2001-01-01
Dual Language Education

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  • Author: Kathryn J. Lindholm-Leary
  • Publisher: Multilingual Matters
  • ISBN: 9781853595318
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 384

Dual language education is a program that combines language minority and language majority students for instruction through two languages. This book provides the conceptual background for the program and discusses major implementation issues. Research findings summarize language proficiency and achievement outcomes from 8000 students at 20 schools, along with teacher and parent attitudes.

Educating Emergent Bilinguals

2018-04-13
Educating Emergent Bilinguals

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  • Author: Ofelia Garcia
  • Publisher: Teachers College Press
  • ISBN: 080775885X
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 257

This accessible guide introduces readers to the issues and controversies surrounding the education of language minority students in the United States. What makes this book a perennial favorite are the succinct descriptions of alternative practices for transforming our schools and students' futures, such as building on students' home languages and literacy practices, incorporating curricular and pedagogical innovations, using proven-effective approaches to parent engagement, and employing alternative assessment tools.

Continua of Biliteracy

2003-05-23
Continua of Biliteracy

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  • Author: Nancy H. Hornberger
  • Publisher: Multilingual Matters
  • ISBN: 1847699561
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 404

Biliteracy - the use of two or more languages in and around writing- is an inescapable feature of lives and schools worldwide, yet one which most educational policy and practice continue blithely to ignore. The continua of biliteracy featured in the present volume offers a comprehensive yet flexible model to guide educators, researchers, and policy-makers in designing, carrying out, and evaluating educational programs for the development of bilingual and multilingual learners, each program adapted to its own specific context, media, and contents.

Foundations of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism

2021-03-08
Foundations of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism

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  • Author: Colin Baker
  • Publisher: Multilingual Matters
  • ISBN: 1788929918
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 692

The seventh edition of this bestselling textbook has been extensively revised and updated to provide a comprehensive and accessible introduction to bilingualism and bilingual education in an everchanging world. Written in a compact and clear style, the book covers all the crucial issues in bilingualism and multilingualism at individual, group and societal levels. Updates to the new edition include: Thoroughly updated chapters with over 500 new citations of the latest research. Six chapters with new titles to better reflect their updated content. A new Chapter 16 on Deaf-Signing People, Bilingualism/Multilingualism, and Bilingual Education. The latest demographics and other statistical data. Recent developments in and limitations of brain imaging research. An expanded discussion of key topics including multilingual education, codeswitching, translanguaging, translingualism, biliteracy, multiliteracies, metalinguistic and morphological awareness, superdiversity, raciolinguistics, anti-racist education, critical post-structural sociolinguistics, language variation, motivation, age effects, power, and neoliberal ideologies. Recent US policy developments including the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), Seal of Biliteracy, Proposition 58, LOOK Act, Native American Languages Preservation Act, and state English proficiency standards and assessments consortia (WIDA, ELPA21). New global examples of research, policy, and practice beyond Europe and North America. Technology and language learning on the internet and via mobile apps, and multilingual language use on the internet and in social media. Students and Instructors will benefit from updated chapter features including: New bolded key terms corresponding to a comprehensive glossary Recommended readings and online resources Discussion questions and study activities

Dual Language Bilingual Education

2020-04-15
Dual Language Bilingual Education

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  • Author: Kathryn I. Henderson
  • Publisher: Multilingual Matters
  • ISBN: 1788928105
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 150

This book explores the role of the teacher in dual language bilingual education (DLBE) implementation in a time of nationwide program expansion, in large part due to new and unprecedented top-down initiatives at state and district level. The book provides case studies of DLBE teachers who: (a) implemented the DLBE model with fidelity; (b) struggled to implement the DLBE model; and (c) adapted the DLBE model to meet the needs of their local classroom context. The book demonstrates the way teachers as language policymakers navigate and interpret district-wide DLBE implementation and the tensions that surface through this process. The research, conducted over four years using a variety of methods, highlights the challenges and opportunities faced by teachers implementing DLBE, and will be of interest to both teachers and administrators of DLBE programs as well as scholars working in bilingual education.

Immersion Education

2011-07-05
Immersion Education

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  • Author: Diane J. Tedick
  • Publisher: Multilingual Matters
  • ISBN: 184769473X
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 304

This volume builds on Fortune and Tedick’s 2008 Pathways to Multilingualism: Evolving Perspectives on Immersion Education and showcases the practice and promise of immersion education through in-depth investigations of program design, implementation practices, and policies in one-way, two-way and indigenous programs. Contributors present new research and reflect on possibilities for strengthening practices and policies in immersion education. Questions explored include: What possibilities for program design exist in charter programs for both two-way and indigenous models? How do studies on learner outcomes lead to possibilities for improvements in program implementation? How do existing policies and practices affect struggling immersion learners and what possibilities can be imagined to better serve such learners? In addressing such questions, the volume invites readers to consider the possibilities of immersion education to enrich the language development and educational achievement of future generations of learners.