The education of English language learners : research to practice /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Shatz, Marilyn, Wilkinson, Louise Cherry
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Guilford Press, [2010]
Series:	Challenges in language and literacy.
Subjects:	Second language acquisition > Study and teaching. Language and languages > Study and teaching. Multilingualism in children. Language and culture. Sociolinguistics.

Table of Contents:

The brain and language acquisition: variation in language knowledge and readiness for education / Barbara T. Conboy
The process of acquiring a first and second language / Kathryn Kohnert & Giang Pham
Language choice and competence: code switching and issues of social identity in young bilingual children / Iliana Reyes & Susan Ervin-Tripp
Ways to words: learning a second-language vocabulary / Lisa M. Bedore, Elizabeth D. Peña, & Karin Boerger
The role of phonology in orthographically different languages / Ellen H. Newman
Bilingualism and cognitive linkages: learning to read in different languages / Ellen Bialystok & Kathleen F. Peets
Learning English as a second language / María Estela Brisk
Communicative repertoires and English language learners / Betsy Rymes
Difficulty, delay, or disorder: what makes English hard for English language learners? / Carol Westby & Deborah Hwa-Froelich
Implications for assessment and instruction / Alison L. Bailey
Extended implications for practice: families as allies / Leslie Reese & Claude Goldenberg
Recent research on English language and literacy instruction: what we have learned to guide practice for English language learners in the 21st century / Diane August ... [et al.].