Educating Emergent Bilinguals: Policies, Programs, and Practices for English Learners
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Educating Emergent Bilinguals: Policies, Programs, and Practices for English Learners
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Overview
The authors have updated their bestseller to reflect recent shifts in policies, programs, and practices due to globalization and the changing economy; demographic trends; and new research on EL pedagogy. A totally new chapter highlights multimedia and multimodal instructional possibilities for engaging EL students.
This Second Edition is essential reading for all teachers of language-minority students, as well as principals, superintendents, and policymakers.
Book Features:
- Uses the most up-to-date research findings to demonstrate how ignoring children’s bilingualism perpetuates inequities in their schooling.
- Points out the problems with current policies and practices and proposes more effective alternative methods.
- Contrasts the common view of bilingualism as either subtractive or additive with more current understandings of individual bilingualism in translanguaging theories.
- Highlights how multimodalities form part of students’ communicative repertoire and shows teachers how they can leverage this to engage students.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780807758854 |
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| Publisher: | Teachers College Press |
| Publication date: | 04/13/2018 |
| Series: | Language and Literacy Series |
| Pages: | 256 |
| Sales rank: | 128,819 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d) |
About the Author
Table of Contents
Foreword Jim Cummins ix
Acknowledgments xi
Preface xiii
1 Introduction 1
Emergent Bilinguals 1
What's in a Name? 5
This Book 6
2 Who Are the Emergent Bilinguals? 8
How Do We Know Who They Are? 8
How Many Emergent Bilinguals Are There? 9
How Are They Designated? 12
How Are They Reclassified? 13
Where Do They Live and Go to School? 15
What Languages Do They Speak? 17
What Are Their Demographic Characteristics? 19
What Is Their Use of Language? 25
Who Are the Latinx Emergent Bilinguals? 25
Educating Emergent Bilinguals: Knowing Who They Are 28
3 Programs and Policies for Educating Emergent Bilinguals 29
Educational Programs for Emergent Bilinguals 30
A Brief History of Educational Policies for Emergent Bilinguals 35
Programs and Policies for Emergent Bilinguals: Understanding the Shifts 48
4 Bilingualism and Achievement: Theoretical Constructs and Empirical Evidence 50
Theoretical Constructs 50
Empirical Evidence on the Relationship Between Bilingualism and Achievement 64
Educating Emergent Bilinguals: Building on Bilingualism for Academic Success 68
5 Language and Bilingualism: Practices 70
Inequitable Language/Literacy Practices 70
Alternative Language/Literacy Practices 76
Educating Emergent Bilinguals: Incorporating Multilingual Pedagogies 87
6 Affordances of Technology 89
Theoretical Underpinnings 90
Inequitable Access to Digital Technologies 92
How Digital Technologies Can Benefit Emergent Bilinguals 93
Resourcing Emergent Bilinguals' Classrooms 105
Educating Emergent Bilinguals: The Important Role of Technology 106
7 Curriculum and Other Practices 108
Theoretical Curricular and Pedagogical Constructs 109
Inequitable Curricular Opportunities and Resources 115
Alternative Curricular Practices and Preparing Caring Educators 124
Educating Emergent Bilinguals: Embracing Challenge and Care 127
8 Family and Community Engagement 129
Research and Theories on Parental and Community Involvement 130
Inequities in School and Family/Community Relations 135
Alternative Approaches to Parent and Community Engagement 138
Educating Emergent Bilinguals: Re-creating the School-Family-Community Connections 142
9 Assessments 144
Theoretical Constructs in Assessment 145
Inequitable Assessment Practices 150
Alternative Assessment Practices 153
Educating Emergent Bilinguals: Accounting for Fair Assessment 159
10 Signposts: Conclusion and Recommendations 161
What Have We Learned? 161
Signposts: Policy Recommendations 167
Educating Emergent Bilinguals: Alternative Paths 178
Notes 181
References 187
Index 231
About the Authors 241
What People are Saying About This
"This is the book that every educator in 21st-century USA should read. Few will not have students from other-than-English backgrounds at some point. García and Kleifgen explain in highly accessible prose both the why and how of instruction for emergent bilinguals (ELs) and why it matters so much that we get this right."—Patricia Gándara, co-director, The Civil Rights Project at UCLA
“In the second edition of this important book, García and Kleifgen show the continued disconnect between research that points to the rich cultural and linguistic resources of minoritized emergent bilinguals and policies and practices that at best ignore these resources and at worst treats these resources as deficits in need of remediation. The authors further develop their blueprint for developing educational policies and practices that insists on the naming of the bilingualism of these students and treating this bilingualism as a resource for teaching and learning. This book is a must read for researchers, policymakers and practitioners interested in improving the education of minoritized emergent bilinguals.”—Nelson L. Flores, University of Pennsylvania