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Gisela Ernst-Slavit; Margo Gottlieb – Corwin, 2025
For years, the teaching of content-based academic language to multilingual learners has focused on formulas, vocabulary lists, and sentence patterns--often sidelining students' linguistic and cultural strengths. Gisela Ernst-Slavit and Margo Gottlieb address these challenges by embracing academic "languaging," an active, collaborative…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Usage
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Leyla Marti – System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics, 2012
This article examines floor management in two classroom sessions: a task-oriented computer lesson and a literature lesson. Recordings made in the computer lesson show the organization of floor when a task is given to students. Temporary or "incipient" side floors (Jones and Thornborrow, 2004) emerge beside the main floor. In the…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, German, Literature, Computer Assisted Instruction
Coballes-Vega, Carmen; Walters, Joel – 1979
Spatial and temporal factors in the bilingual classroom that can be manipulated to maximize the bilingualism of Spanish-speaking elementary school children (that is, to minimize their lexical code switching) are presented in terms of models. The advantages and disadvantages of the dual language teaching model are compared to those of two…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Check Lists, Classroom Communication