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Direct linkPaulsrud, BethAnne, Ed.; Rosén, Jenny, Ed.; Straszer, Boglárka, Ed.; Wedin, Åsa, Ed. – Multilingual Matters, 2017
This edited collection explores the immense potential of translanguaging in educational settings and highlights teachers and students negotiating language ideologies in their everyday communicative practices. It makes a significant contribution to scholarship on translanguaging and considers the need for pedagogy to reflect and embrace diversity.…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Bilingual Education, Preschool Education, Elementary Secondary Education
Beetham, James – American Language Review, 1997
Examines the role of language as a catalyst for change and as a potential barrier to growth in Europe, an area where migration is historically less extensive than in the United States. Issues considered include the emergence of the European Union and related policy changes, trends in personal mobility, language education practices and policies,…
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, Educational Policy, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
Download full textJudd, Elliot L. – 1983
Teaching English to speakers of other languages (TESOL) is a political act, and those who are engaged in teaching English to non- or limited-English speakers are directly or indirectly implementing a language policy that promotes a form of language change in students. This means that TESOL teachers are faced with certain moral dilemmas whose…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, English (Second Language), Ideology, Language Role
Graham, Graylen Todd – American Language Review, 1997
An African American teacher of English discusses her own experience with black English as a barrier to academic success, her efforts to assure that her own students speak standard English and to understand why many teachers do not stress this and the need to understand why many African American students do not use standard English despite its…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Dialects, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education
Gonzalez, Roseann Duenas, Ed. – 2000
This collection of essays addresses the complicated and divisive issues at the heart of the debate over language diversity and the English Only movement in United States public education. Blending social, political, and legal analyses of the ideologies of language with perspectives on the impact of the English Only movement on education and in…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Bilingual Education, Cultural Pluralism, Educational Policy
Diaz, Alicia; And Others – 1994
The approach to English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) instruction for preschool children at Instituto Crandon, a private elementary-secondary school in Uruguay is described. First, characteristics of Uruguay and its educational system are outlined, stressing the advantages of temperate physical environment and high literacy rate. Then background…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Educational Policy, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
Gonzalez, Roseann Duenas, Ed. – 2001
This collection of essays addresses the complicated and divisive issues at the heart of the debate over language diversity and the English Only movement in United States public education. Blending social, political, and legal analyses of the ideologies of language with perspectives on the impact of the English Only movement on education and in…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Bilingual Education, Cultural Pluralism, Educational Legislation
Griffith, Paul T. – I.C.T.F.L. Accents, 1995
It is suggested that trends in federal and state policy formation are working against the advancement of second language education in Illinois. While the passage of the Goals 2000: Educate America Act at the federal level was a positive step, legislating that foreign language be part of the core curriculum, a subsequent state policy draft excluded…
Descriptors: Budgets, Educational Demand, Educational Policy, Educational Trends
Gravelle, Maggie – 1996
Starting from the perspective that bilingualism is an asset, the book describes approaches and strategies for schools to adopt that support and develop the skills of bilingual learners. A theoretical framework and research on which it is based are outlined, and suggestions are made for classroom strategies and procedures. The first chapter…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Classroom Techniques, Curriculum Design
Blackledge, Adrian, Ed. – 1994
Contributors from Australia, Canada, England, New Zealand, and the United States describe how primary-age children in these anglophone countries are learning in the language of their home. The book demonstrates that monolingual schooling in a multicultural society fails to meet the needs of bilingual children. It argues that linguistic minorities…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Teachers, Bilingualism, Classroom Communication
Malave, Lilliam M., Ed. – 1988
Papers in this volume include the following: "The Theoretical Framework of Jim Cummins: A Review and Critique"; "The Development of Bilingual Behavior"; "Effective Schools Research and Language Instruction Programs"; "Reading and Writing Instruction in Three Bilingual Education Programs in Connecticut";…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Bilingual Education, Case Studies, Cultural Context
NABE News, 1996
Volume 19 of the newsletter of the National Association for Bilingual Education, which spans the period from September 1995 to August 1996, contains a variety of articles on issues and developments in bilingual education policy and programs, including: two way bilingual education; language information from the 1990 Census; cultural influence and…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Alaska Natives, American Indians, Asian Americans
