Making the transition to classroom success : culturally responsive teaching for struggling language learners /
Learners with no, minimal or limited exposure to formal education generally do not share the expectations and assumptions of their new setting; as a result, they are likely to find themselves confounded by the ways in which the language and content are presented, practiced and assessed in Western-st...
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| Language: | English |
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Ann Arbor :
University of Michigan Press,
[2013]
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| Summary: | Learners with no, minimal or limited exposure to formal education generally do not share the expectations and assumptions of their new setting; as a result, they are likely to find themselves confounded by the ways in which the language and content are presented, practiced and assessed in Western-style educational settings. Institutions and teachers must tailor therefore their instruction to this population. Making the Transition to Classroom Success: Culturally Responsive Teaching for Struggling Language Learners examines how understanding secondary and adult L2 learners' educational paradigm, rooted deeply in their past experiences and cultural orientations, provides a key to the solution to a lack of progress. Making the Transition to Classroom Success builds on and expands on two earlier books, Meeting the Needs of Students with Limited or Interrupted Formal Schooling and Breaking New Ground: Teaching Students with Limited or Interrupted Formal Education in U.S. Secondary Schools. These previous books focused specifically on a subset of struggling L2 learners, those with limited or interrupted formal education (SLIFE) in U.S. secondary schools, and detailed the instructional model (MALP). Making the Transition broadens the applications of the MALP model to include academic thinking tasks, flipped classrooms, project design and rubrics. |
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 137 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-132) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0472035339 9780472035335 |