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Rodriguez-Valls, Fernando – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2009
Thousands of students in California learn English as a second language in schools that utilize exclusively monolingual--English Only--literacy programs. With such programs students do not have the opportunity to use the knowledge of their first language in order to acquire and master their second language. The project of cooperative bi-literacy…
Descriptors: Monolingualism, Literacy, Teaching Methods, Spanish
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Achugar, Mariana; Schleppegrell, Mary; Oteiza, Teresa – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2007
Classrooms around the world are becoming more multilingual and teachers in all subject areas are faced with new challenges in enabling learners' academic language development without losing focus on content. These challenges require new ways of conceptualizing the relationship between language and content as well as new pedagogies that…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Learning Processes