Academic success for English language learners : strategies for k-12 mainstream teachers /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Richard-Amato, Patricia A. (ed), Snow, Marguerite Ann, 1955- (ed)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: White Plains, N.Y. : Longman, c2005.
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Table of Contents:
  • Who are our students? / Aida Walqui
  • Developments in second language acquisition research and theory: from structuralism to social participation / Bridget Fitzgerald Gersten, Sarah Hudelson
  • What teachers need to know about Language / Lily Wong Fillmore, Catherine E. Snow
  • Language proficiency, bilingualism, and academic achievement / Jim Cummins
  • The cognitive academic language learning approach (CALLA): an update / Anna Uhl Chamot
  • Interaction between learning and development / Lev Vygotsky
  • The phenomenon of uprooting / Cristina Igoa
  • We speak many tongues: language diversity and multicultural education / Sonia Nieto
  • Language, culture, diversity, and the reading/writing process
  • John E. Readence, Thomas W. Bean, R. Scott Baldwin
  • Cooperative learning for second language learners: models, applications, and challenges / Mary McGroaty, Margarita Calderon
  • Instructional strategies for K-12 mainstream teachers / Patricia A. Richard-Amato, Marguerite Ann Snow
  • Curriculum adaptations / Jana Echevarria, Anne Graves
  • Lesson designs for reading comprehension and vocabulary development / Reade Dornan, Lois Matz Rosen, Marilyn Wilson
  • Writing in a second language across the curriculum / Pauline Gibbons
  • Assessment of students / Donna E. Alvermann, Stephen F. Phelps
  • Possiblilities and problems of a standards-based approach: the good, the bad, and the ugly / Beverly Falk
  • Maximising the language and learning link in computer learning environments / Catherine McLoughlin, Ron Oliver
  • Mathematics education for second language. Barbara Hawkins
  • Teaching literature to English language learners / Linda Sasser
  • Reading and 'riting and ... social studies: integrated language and content instruction / Deborah J. Short
  • Integrating language and science learning / Angela L. Carrasquillo, Vivian Rodriguez
  • Enhasing content literacy in physical education / Cathy Buell, Andrea Whittaker
  • Rationales for teaching world musics / C. Victor Fung
  • The culturally competent art educator / Lucy Andrus.