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Educating Second Language Children: The Whole Child, the Whole Curriculum, the Whole Community »

Authors: Fred Genesee, Jack C. Richards
ISBN-13: 9780521457972, ISBN-10: 0521457971
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: March 1994
Edition: (Non-applicable)

This text brings together the work of 15 elementary education experts who support an integrative approach to educating second language children.

	List of contributors
	Series editor's preface
	Editor's acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
I	General Perspectives	13
Ch. 1	Language, culture, and schooling	15
Ch. 2	Knowledge, power, and identity in teaching English as a second language	33
II	The Preschool Years	59
Ch. 3	Interactions between parents and children in bilingual families	61
Ch. 4	Language socialization in ethnic minority communities	82
Ch. 5	English as a second language in preschool programs	103
III	The Classroom	127
Ch. 6	Literacy development of second language children	129
Ch. 7	Teaching content through a second language	159
Ch. 8	Grouping strategies for second language learners	183
Ch. 9	Classroom-based assessment	212
IV	Additional Challenges	241
Ch. 10	Special education needs of second language students	243
Ch. 11	Language development of low-literacy students	278
Ch. 12	Social integration of immigrant and refugee children	301
	Conclusion	329
Ch. 13	Putting it all together	331
	Author index	357
	Subject index	363