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Direct linkSusan Ballinger, Editor; Ruth Fielding, Editor; Diane J. Tedick, Editor – Multilingual Matters, 2024
This book fills a large gap in our understanding of how to prepare teachers for the challenging but increasingly popular task of integrating content and language instruction. It brings together findings on content-based teacher education from Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe and North America in order to inform researchers and teacher educators and…
Descriptors: Content and Language Integrated Learning, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Teaching Methods
Baker, Colin – Multilingual Matters, 2011
The fifth edition of this bestselling book provides a comprehensive introduction to bilingualism and bilingual education. In a compact and clear style, its 19 chapters cover all the crucial issues in bilingualism at individual, group and national levels. These include: (1) defining who is bilingual and multilingual; (2) testing language abilities…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Language Planning, Teacher Effectiveness, Bilingual Education
Swain, Merrill; Lapkin, Sharon – 1982
A decade of research on immersion programs in Ontario is synthesized. The immersion programs studied over this period include three major alternatives: early total French immersion, early partial French immersion, and late partial French immersion. The programs all serve an English speaking students population, devote at least one half of each…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Education Programs, Bilingualism
Diamond, Linda, Ed.; Thorsnes, B. J., Ed. – Consortium on Reading Excellence (NJ3), 2008
This book contains a collection of formal and informal reading assessments for use with students in Grades K-12. These assessments assist the teacher in targeting areas of strength and weakness, in monitoring student reading development, and in planning appropriate instruction. Unlike large-scale achievement tests, the majority of these…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Systems Approach, Bilingual Education Programs, Program Effectiveness
Syrja, Rachel Carrillo – Jossey-Bass, An Imprint of Wiley, 2011
This book provides practical strategies and tools for assessing and teaching even the most hard to reach English language learners across the content areas. Syrja offers educators the latest information on working with ELLs (including using formative assessments) and provides a wealth of classroom-tested models and measures. These tools have…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Teaching Methods, Success
Krashen, Stephen D. – 1999
An expert on second language acquisition examines and refutes five commonly offered arguments against bilingual education: (1) it is responsible for the high Hispanic dropout rate; (2) most immigrants succeed without bilingual education; (3) the United States is the only nation that has bilingual education; (4) bilingual education failed in…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Dropout Rate, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language)
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris (France). – 1981
This report presents a review conducted by a multinational panel on educational policy in the United States. The report concentrates on compensatory programs in elementary and secondary education, with an emphasis on Title I programs. Topics covered include: (1) recent trends in American education; (2) the philosophy, operational design, and…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Community Involvement, Compensatory Education, Competency Based Education
