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Sharples, Robert – Multilingual Matters, 2021
This book offers an evidence-based guide to EAL for everyone who works with multilingual learners. It provides a concise, helpful introduction to the latest research underpinning three key areas of EAL practice: (1) How children acquire additional languages? (2) How language works across the curriculum? and (3) How you can establish outstanding…
Descriptors: English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Multilingualism
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Chetkow-Yanoov, Benyamin – Peabody Journal of Education, 1996
Discusses the development of three different curricula for teaching conflict resolution to students in the Israeli public schools. Explains curriculum goals, presents eight examples of available teaching technologies appropriate for students in different age groups (e.g., peer mediation and second-language learning), and discusses creative…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Conflict Resolution, Consciousness Raising, Curriculum Development
Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Inc., Alexandria, VA. – 1996
The guide is written for English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) and bilingual education specialists, classroom teachers, building administrators, and parents. It outlines the vision of the Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) for the effective education of elementary and secondary school ESL students, and presents a framework for…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Behavioral Objectives, Communicative Competence (Languages), Educational Objectives
Judd, Elliot L.; Tan, Lihua; Walberg, Herbert J. – 2001
This booklet describes key principles of and research on teaching additional languages. The 10 chapters focus on the following: (1) "Comprehensible Input" (learners need exposure to meaningful, understandable language); (2) "Language Opportunities" (classroom activities should let students use natural and meaningful language with their…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Elementary Secondary Education, Grammar, Higher Education
Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Inc., Alexandria, VA. – 1997
The guide outlines performance standards for each of three broad goals of English-as-a-Second-Language teaching in elementary and secondary education. The three goals include: use of English to communicate in social settings; use of English to achieve academically in all content areas; and use of English in socially and culturally appropriate…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Behavioral Objectives, Communicative Competence (Languages)
Christian, Donna – 1995
A discussion of second language learning among language minority students looks at the increasing multiculturalism of the U.S. classroom and a number of related issues, including the relationship between first language development and second language learning, academic language needs, and literacy development, and concern about the appropriateness…
Descriptors: After School Education, Art Education, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques