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The education of English language learners : research to practice /

This comprehensive volume describes evidence-based strategies for supporting English language learners (ELLs) by promoting meaningful communication and language use across the curriculum. Leading experts explain how and why learning is different for ELLs and pinpoint specific best practices for the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Shatz, Marilyn, Wilkinson, Louise Cherry
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Guilford Press, 2010.
Colección:Challenges in language and literacy.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The brain and language acquisition: variation in language knowledge and readiness for education / Barbara T. Conboy
  • The process of acquiring a first and second language / Kathryn Kohnert & Giang Pham
  • Language choice and competence: code switching and issues of social identity in young bilingual children / Iliana Reyes & Susan Ervin-Tripp
  • Ways to words: learning a second-language vocabulary / Lisa M. Bedore, Elizabeth D. Peña, & Karin Boerger
  • The role of phonology in orthographically different languages / Ellen H. Newman
  • Bilingualism and cognitive linkages: learning to read in different languages / Ellen Bialystok & Kathleen F. Peets
  • Learning English as a second language / María Estela Brisk
  • Communicative repertoires and English language learners / Betsy Rymes
  • Difficulty, delay, or disorder: what makes English hard for English language learners? / Carol Westby & Deborah Hwa-Froelich
  • Implications for assessment and instruction / Alison L. Bailey
  • Extended implications for practice: families as allies / Leslie Reese & Claude Goldenberg
  • Recent research on English language and literacy instruction: what we have learned to guide practice for English language learners in the 21st century / Diane August [and others].