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Cummins, Jim – Journal of Multilingual Education Research, 2019
My goal in this paper is to contribute to the process of bringing practice and theory into active dialogue. Initially, I review some early instructional examples of crosslinguistic pedagogy involving emergent bilingual students. I then focus on more recent examples from the Canadian context that illustrate the emerging role of classroom teachers…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Teaching Methods, Bilingualism, Native Language
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Cummins, Jim – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2015
Recent scholarship within the field of applied linguistics highlights the fact that identities are not static but are fluid, multiple, changeable across time and space, and always constructed in relationship to interactions with others. In other words, identities are constantly in motion. This paper presents a framework for examining the notion of…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Power Structure, Applied Linguistics, Multilingualism
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Cummins, Jim – Language and Education, 2015
The authors of papers in this special issue are in agreement that if schools are to reverse underachievement among rural and township students in the South African context the instructional space must be expanded to include students' and teachers' multilingual repertoires together with a focus on explicitly demystifying how academic language…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Disadvantaged, Rural Areas, Academic Discourse
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Cummins, Jim – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2012
The present paper synthesizes the international research literature on the educational achievement of immigrant and minority language students by articulating three propositions for which there is strong empirical evidence: (a) print access and literacy engagement play a key role in promoting reading comprehension; (b) the development of bilingual…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Immigrants, Language Minorities, Literacy