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Books > Social sciences > Education > Teaching of specific groups > Teaching of ethnic minorities
Based on years of experience teaching English to non-native
speakers, this insightful How To guide describes not only the
particular challenges that multilinguals face compared to native
English speakers but also the unique benefits of working in
multiple languages. Throughout this engaging and practical book,
Shai Dothan explores the mastery of the English language,
reflecting on the common problem of perfecting your English whilst
also practicing and refining other languages. This book serves as a
guide to improving writing styles and presentation skills,
especially of non-native English speakers by providing techniques
for improved public speaking, reading, and writing. With an
accessible approach, chapters teach a wide range of useful skills
including how to excel in exams, publish in multiple languages, and
develop your 'inner ear'. Designed for multilinguals who wish to
improve their English, this guide will be an invaluable and
invigorating resource for students and researchers who are seeking
to hone their English language skills. It can be used to accompany
English language courses in an academic or professional setting and
can also be read individually as a self-help book. Researchers,
students, and professionals working in the field of law will find
the book particularly relevant.
Within today's multilingual communities, a growing percentage of
students are emergent bilinguals-bringing to school a home language
other than English and thus poised to become bilingual as they
acquire the new language. As a result, school leaders need to have
essential background knowledge and a wealth of strategies at their
fingertips to ensure that all students are prepared for college,
career, and civic engagement. In Learning in a New Language, author
Lori Helman offers educational leaders a comprehensive and
accessible guide to best practices for supporting students from
culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds in a school
environment that embraces equity. Helman discusses: Changing
demographics that require educational leaders to enlarge and
enhance their approaches. The importance of engaging families in
forming a cohesive school community that contributes to student
success. Fundamental approaches to creating equity for
linguistically diverse students in the school change process. The
role of language in academic learning and what makes learning in a
new language unique. Evidence-based strategies for literacy and
content-area classrooms. Practical tips for where to start in
supporting emergent bilinguals in the classroom, and presents
dozens of online resources for further exploration. The
responsibilities of educational leaders continue to expand as they
work toward managing school sites and ensuring equity of student
opportunity and achievement. Helman provides a one-stop resource
for the foundational knowledge and practical guidance needed to
strategically take on these responsibilities.
PACE Yourself is for inexperienced or volunteer tutors of ESL. This
handbook does not aim to make overnight experts of novices. Rather,
the authors provide an easy-to-follow guide for people who want to
tutor small groups of nonnative speakers of English but do not know
how. Reproducible forms, appendixes of resources, terminology, ESL
publishers, and professional organizations of interest to ESL
tutors add relevant, useful information. This handbook is designed
to meet your needs as a beginning tutor of ESL. It should be a key
to many hours of rewarding and successful tutoring.
Nearly three-quarters of public schools in the United States enroll
English language learners (ELLs). That means teachers at all grade
levels need to know how to help these students achieve full
academic English language proficiency. In Dispelling Misconceptions
About English Language Learners, Barbara Gottschalk dispels 10
common misconceptions about ELLs and gives teachers the information
they need to help their ELLs succeed in the classroom. From her
perspective as a teacher of English as a second language,
Gottschalk answers several key questions: Just who is an English
language learner? Why is it important to support home language
maintenance and promote family engagement? What are the
foundational principles for instruction that help educators teach
ELLs across the content areas? How can teachers recognize and
incorporate the background knowledge and experiences ELLs bring to
class? Why is it important to maintain high standards and
expectations for all students, including ELLs? How can a teacher
tell when an ELL needs special education versus special teaching?
By answering these questions, and more, Gottschalk gives teachers a
crystal-clear understanding of how to reach ELLs at each stage of
English language acquisition. Her expert guidance reinforces for
teachers what they are already doing right and helps them
understand what they might need to be doing differently.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
New 2014 updated technology plan. This book is a valuable resource
for workplace language training providers as well as corporations
and organizations wishing to employ such providers' services. It
serves as a guide to promote quality and accountability among
providers. This book also offers insights that enable providers and
client organizations to develop realistic expectations for their
workplace language training programs. The practices outlined in
this text are illustrated with useful case studies drawn from
successful English language training situations.
Modern societies tend to demand innovative learning modalities in
which foreign languages are used to teach content subjects from
very early educational stages. Education authorities in different
geographical areas of the world are currently working to determine
how bilingual teaching should be developed depending, along with
many other factors, on the initial training of bilingual education
teachers. On this basis, it is necessary to review how tertiary
education institutions deal with the theoretical foundations and
practical approaches necessary for this learning modality to train
bilingual education teachers for primary schools. Training Teachers
for Bilingual Education in Primary Schools includes international
experiences of teacher training for bilingual education in primary
schools in which educators should be able to recognize themselves
and identify concrete working formulas to apply in their daily
work. Covering key topics such as teacher training, language
learning, and primary education, this reference work is ideal for
administrators, teacher trainers, policymakers, researchers,
scholars, practitioners, academicians, instructors, and students.
This book presents a novel perspective on education as a social
right. Literature on this topic has focused on inclusion as the
universal concept whereby access to education is examined. As a
moral principle, this concept opens new challenges in different
ways if we take a deeper view into diverse contexts. What
education? For what? For whom? Are we thinking about education
because it will bring social justice in the future, or are we
thinking of education as a just practice in the present? This book
brings fresh theoretical and empirical perspectives on those
questions, moving beyond a pure inclusion paradigm to a broader and
context-oriented notion of educational justice. The chapters engage
with theories of educational justice to present these challenges at
the institutional level of educational policy, at the practical
level of schooling practices, and in the production of ideas around
childhood and education, for instance, notions of normalcy at
schools. Although the featured works are related to the Chilean
educational system, they opens questions about education in
general. They embrace rural and urban contexts, different
educational levels (from preschool to university), and university
and vocational education. This book will be rewarding reading for
educational scholars, those interested in theories of social and
educational justice, and anyone interested in contemporary
perspectives on education, childhood and youth, inclusion, and
justice.
The field of TESOL encompasses English teachers who teach English
as an additional language in English-dominant countries and those
teachers who teach English as a foreign language in countries where
a language other than English is the official language. This range
of educators teaches English to children, adolescents, and adults
in primary, secondary, post-secondary, popular education, and
language academies or tutoring centers. The diversity of learners
and contexts within the TESOL field presents a unique opportunity
for educators to address varied educational and societal needs.
This opportunity calls for TESOL educators who can support the
whole learner in a range of contexts for the greater social good.
There is an urgent need for readily reproducible and step-by-step
research-based practices and current standards in TESOL that bridge
the gap between critical scholarship and equitable teaching
practices. This book would serve as a critical addition to current
literature in TESOL. TESOL Guide for Critical Praxis in Teaching,
Inquiry, and Advocacy is an essential reference that provides
practical and equitable step-by-step guides for TESOL educators
through the current best practices and methods for effective and
equity-minded teaching, critical inquiry, and transformative
advocacy. This book is of particular value as it bridges theories
to practices with a critical look at racial and social justice in
English language teaching, which will lead to the integration of
social justice-focused practice across the new curriculum. Covering
topics such as integrated language instruction, equity and
inclusivity, critical consciousness, and online learning, this text
is essential for in-service and pre-service TESOL educators,
education students, researchers, administrators, teacher educators,
and academicians.
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