Subjects:  1. Bilingual Education    2. Dictionaries - General    3. Education    4. Education, Bilingual    5. Language Experience Approach    6. Linguistic minorities    7. Reference    8. United States    9. Education / Bilingual Education    10. Organization & management of education   

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This book is fantastic
This book is a fantastic buy.Many familiar phrases and some that you didnt know existed.A must buy!Alot of fun to read also, whether you are discussing the distinct dialect or just using it to reference words or sayings. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Bilingual Education    2. Education    3. General    4. Education / Bilingual Education   

Subjects:  1. Bilingual Education    2. Education    3. Education / Teaching    4. Education Of Socially Divergent Students    5. Education, Bilingual    6. English as a Second Language    7. English language    8. Evaluation    9. Language Experience Approach    10. Linguistic minorities    11. Multicultural Education    12. Study & Teaching    13. Study and teaching    14. United States    15. Organization & management of education    16. Teaching of ethnic minorities   

Subjects:  1. Bilingual Education    2. Education    3. Education / Teaching    4. Teaching Methods & Materials - Arts & Humanities    5. Teaching Methods & Materials - Reading   

Subjects:  1. Bilingual Education    2. Comparative Grammar    3. Grammar    4. Grammar, Comparative and gener    5. Grammar, Comparative and general    6. Language    7. Language Arts & Disciplines    8. Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy    9. Language acquisition    10. Languages in contact    11. Linguistics    12. Phonology    13. Second Language Acquisition    14. Education / Bilingual Education    15. Phonetics, phonology, prosody (speech)   

Subjects:  1. Bilingual Education    2. Composition & Creative Writing - General    3. Education / Teaching    4. Philosophy of education    5. Teaching of ethnic minorities    6. USA   

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Excellent ESL/ESOL Resource
If you are a teacher who is faced with needing to know what to do about the ESL/ESOL student in your classroom, this book will fast become a valuable resource of information. The authors clearly identify the LEP population, cultural and linguistic issues, and how to integrate content area instructional and learning strategies. This book is also an excellent resource for ESL/ESOL teacher trainers who provide content area inservice/seminars for certification purposes. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Bilingual Education    2. Education    3. Education / Teaching    4. English language    5. Foreign speakers    6. Mainstreaming in education    7. Minorities    8. Study and teaching    9. United States    10. Teaching of ethnic minorities   

Subjects:  1. Bilingual Education    2. Education / Teaching    3. English as a Second Language    4. English language    5. Foreign Language Study    6. Foreign speakers    7. Language    8. Linguistics    9. Study and teaching    10. Teaching Methods & Materials - Language Arts    11. Vocabulary    12. ELT: vocabulary skills    13. English    14. Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics    15. Teaching of a specific subject   

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Showing your race/sexual orientation/socioeconomic status/culture by the way you speak.
An interesting look at differences in language -- accent, vocabulary, and dialect. This book explores the judgements that people, even young children, make when they hear a voice. Well-rounded and very pragmatic about solutions. Doesn't just say 'Oh, people shouldn't judge each other.' Because, like it or not, we do.

Language and the Classroom
The Skin That We Speak, by Lisa Delpit, is a collection of essays written by various authors about the impact of language in the classroom.The author identifies the purpose of the book as the exploration of "the links between language and identity, between language and political hierarchy, and between language and cultural conflict."The book is divided into three sections starting with an individual inward look into languages, a examination of the consequences of language attitudes in the classroom, and finishes with a look at the language of teachers and what they need to know to become effective in the classroom.The author titled the book, The Skin That We Speak, because "just as our skin provides us with a means to negotiate our interactions with the world - our language plays an equally pivotal role in determining who we are."For each of us our language becomes intimately connected to our identity.
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Subjects:  1. Aims & Objectives    2. Bilingual Education    3. Dialects    4. Education    5. Education / Teaching    6. English Dialectology    7. English language    8. Multicultural Education    9. Native language and education    10. Philosophy & Social Aspects    11. Social aspects    12. Sociology Of Education    13. Study and teaching   

Subjects:  1. Bilingual Education    2. Education    3. English as a Second Language    4. Grammar    5. Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy    6. Language and languages    7. Rhetoric    8. Second language acquisition    9. Study and teaching    10. Teaching Methods & Materials - Foreign Language    11. ELT: teaching theory & methods    12. ELT: writing skills    13. Foreign Language Study / English as a Second Language   

Subjects:  1. Bilingual Education    2. Education    3. Education / Teaching    4. Teaching Methods & Materials - Arts & Humanities    5. Teaching Methods & Materials - Reading   

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Of Borders and Dreams
In ¡°Of Borders and Dreams¡± a book, is about a Mexican-American Experience with Urban Education, Chris Liska Carger, an author, provides an intellectually and emotionally moving account of a young boy and his family as they struggle to succeed in an environment that doesn't value their language or their culture. This family is set in a Mexican community on the west side of Chicago. Carger describes the life of Alejandro and his family as they seek to meet Alejandro's educational needs in both Catholic and public schools. Read more

Subjects:  1. Bilingual Education    2. Case studies    3. Chicago    4. Education    5. Education (Elementary)    6. Education / Teaching    7. Education, Urban    8. Illinois    9. Mexican-American children    10. Multicultural Education    11. Biography: general    12. Multicultural studies    13. Organization & management of education    14. Schools    15. Social issues    16. Teaching of ethnic minorities    17. USA   

Subjects:  1. Bilingual Education    2. Bilingualism    3. Composition & Creative Writing - General    4. Education    5. Education / Teaching    6. General    7. Language Experience Approach    8. Linguistics    9. Multicultural Education    10. Pop Arts / Pop Culture    11. Popular Culture - General    12. Public Policy    13. Bilingualism & multilingualism    14. Multicultural studies    15. Philosophy of education   

Subjects:  1. Bilingual Education    2. Curricula    3. Education    4. Education / Teaching    5. Education, Bilingual    6. Multicultural Education    7. School improvement programs    8. Second language acquisition    9. Teaching Methods & Materials - Language Arts    10. United States    11. Bilingualism & multilingualism    12. Education / Curricula   

Subjects:  1. Bilingual Education    2. Education, Bilingual    3. English language    4. General    5. Language    6. Language Arts & Disciplines    7. Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy    8. Language policy    9. Political aspects    10. Sociolinguistics    11. United States    12. Language Teaching & Learning (Other Than ELT)    13. Teaching of ethnic minorities    14. USA   

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Good overview of Bilingual Education in America
This book gives a fairly detailed history of bilingual, multicultural and ESL education in America, including the politics and theories behind it.
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Subjects:  1. Bilingual Education    2. Education   

Subjects:  1. Bilingual Education    2. English language    3. Foreign speakers    4. General    5. Language    6. Language Arts & Disciplines    7. Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy    8. Report writing    9. Rhetoric    10. Study & Teaching    11. Study and teaching    12. Study and teaching (Higher)    13. United States    14. ELT: specific skills    15. ELT: teaching theory & methods    16. Education / Bilingual Education   

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Examining the opposing points of view
History professor Guadalupe San Miguel Jr. presents Contested Policy: The Rise And Fall Of Federal Bilingual Education In The United States 1960-2001, a straightforward evaluation of federal bilingual education policy from 1960 to 2001, especially focusing upon the years after 1978 when bilingual policy became the subject of heated debate. Examining the opposing points of view, particularly in a pro-assimilations versus anti-assimilation camps, Contested Policy traces the history of bilingual education legislation, up to the modern day with the passage of English-only legislative rules. An extensively annotated bibliography rounds out this excellent and evenhanded historical reference. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. 20th century    2. Bilingual Education    3. Education    4. Education / Teaching    5. Education, Bilingual    6. Educational Policy & Reform    7. Educational equalization    8. History    9. Mexican Americans    10. Multicultural Education    11. United States    12. Bilingualism & multilingualism    13. Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000    14. Teaching of ethnic minorities    15. USA   

Subjects:  1. Bilingual Education    2. Language    3. Language Arts & Disciplines    4. Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy    5. Reading Skills    6. Sociolinguistics    7. Education / Bilingual Education    8. English    9. Language & Linguistics    10. Philosophy of education    11. Teaching of ethnic minorities    12. USA   

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Ad nauseam
The author clearly knows his stuff, but is guilty of making a book out of the following contents
Thorough Guide for the Inquiring Parent
After reading an excerpt via the "look inside" feature Amazon offers, I decided to give this book a try.As a parent debatingwhether to send her child to a dual language program (yes, there are different bilingual programs..read to find out!), this book answered many if not all of my questions.I liked the Q & A format, and found it easy to read (especially when time is limited with two young children).There isn't a lot of information out there about the effects of bilingual education on language majority children, and this is one book I found that addressed this.I was particularly concerned about my child's reading development (or lack of) if first taught in a language other than our own.The book did address this issue, and I've never found another that does! All parents want their child to succeed, so it is important for a book for parents to address issues such as this.
For All Parents with a Bad Bilingual Conscience
Colin Baker's handbook is a help for which bilingual parents have waited for too long a time. In this new edition, Baker includes the most recent research results in a format which allows perpetually busy parents to read according to their current perception of their individual set of language parenting problems. Nearly anything that can go right or wrong is treated somewhere in the course of these myriad questions. For ready reference, the questions are listed in the table of contents.Read more

Subjects:  1. Bilingual Education    2. Bilingualism in children    3. Education    4. Education / Teaching    5. Family/Marriage    6. Miscellanea    7. Parent Participation    8. Sociolinguistics    9. Bilingualism & multilingualism    10. Child care & upbringing    11. Education / Multicultural Education    12. Philosophy of education    13. Teaching of ethnic minorities