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Translanguaging : language, bilingualism and education
The emergence over the last 10 years of the analytic concept, 'Translanguaging', has had a forceful impact on the field of Applied Linguistics. This book addresses how it has contributed to our understandings of language, bilingualism and education. Ofelia García and Li Wei trace the development of the theory of Translanguaging and consider its relationship with traditional theories and models of language and bilingualism. Based on practices by students and teachers in a variety of educational contexts, this book describes how Translanguaging is used by bilingual learners to learn and by teachers to teach. Ultimately, the book affirms the transformative nature of Translanguaging; it involves the act of languaging between and beyond systems that have previously been described as separate, and in so doing, new meanings emerge and new understandings are generated, transforming not only semiotic systems and speaker subjectivities, but also social structures.
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Teaching in 2 languages
Teaching in Two Languages is a hands-on practitioner's guide to the challenges of teaching bilingually to the ever-growing population of English Language Learners (ELLs) in today's schools. This invaluable resource addresses emerging models of bilingual education such as two-way immersion and heritage language programmes, in addition to programme models that are limited to serving ELLs. Sharon Adelman Reyes and Tatyana Kleyn have organized the book around essential questions asked by practicing teachers and backed up by compelling vignettes based on actual schools and teachers across the U.S.
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Language Loyalty, Continuity and Change
This short volume provides a comprehensive and synoptic view
of Joshua A. Fishman's contributions to international
sociolinguistics from 1949 to the present. Readers will find in
this volume the essential understandings of Fishmanian
sociolinguistics in two short essays that integrate his life's
work. The first essay by García and Schiffman identifies
the major theoretical contributions and the development of
Fishmanian sociolinguistics, often echoing Fishman's own words.
The essay by Peltz then analyzes Fishman´s contributions
to Yiddish scholarship, as well as the role of that scholarship
in his general work. These essential understandings are then
extended through Fishman's own concluding sentiments, as well
as by the comprehensive and up-to-date bibliography of over
1,000 titles of Joshua A. Fishman's work, compiled by his wife,
Gella Schweid Fishman. Together, the contributions in this
volume pay tribute to the life work of one of the world's most
prolific and original scholars in the field of sociolinguistics
-- the founder of what we refer to in this volume as Fishmanian
sociolinguistics.
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Focus on Bilingual Education
This volume contains interdisciplinary essays on bilingual education in various countries of the world. Some contributions deal with policy and curricular issues with regard to minority and majority language, some consider the enrichment aspect of bilingual education. Others focus on language maintenance and revitalization, still others look at ways in which bilingual education could stabilize the functions of the societal languages. All contributions support bilingualism in society and consider how bilingual education could promote that goal. A special section is devoted to US policies and politics.
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Connecting content and academic language for English learners and struggling students, grades 2-6
For English Learners and other struggling students, understanding and using academic language is absolutely critical to literacy development and school achievement, but it takes careful planning to help these students develop mastery. Ruth Swinney and Patricia Velasco's teacher-friendly guide explains how to weave together content and language goals when planning lesson units, as well as offering strategies for moving students from social to academic language and creating a curriculum of talk in the classroom. In addition, Swinney and Velasco provide detailed sample unit plans in all content areas to demonstrate how these strategies can be employed while simultaneously meeting curriculum demands. Using specific structures of balanced literacy including read along, shared reading, and shared writing, these unit plans also include a self-assessment guide for teachers to use as they scaffold the content to increase comprehension and student achievement
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Handbook of multilingualism and multilingual communication
\"This volume is an up-to-date, concise introduction to bilingualism and multilingualism in schools, in the workplace, and in international institutions in a globalized world. The authors use a problem-solving approach and ask broad questions about bilingualism and multilingualism in society, including the question of language acquisition versus maintenance of bilingualism.\" (author's abstract). Contents: Peter Auer, Li Wei: Introduction: Multilingualism as a problem? Monolingualism as a problem? (1-14); Johanne Paradis: Early bilingual and multilingual acquisition (15-44); Elizabeth Lanza: Multilingualism and the family (45-68); Patricia Baquedano-López, Shlomy Kattan: Growing up in a multilingual community: Insights from language socialization (69-100); Jean-Marc Dewaele: Becoming bi- or multi-lingual later in life (101-130); Colin Baker: Becoming bilingual through bilingual education (131-154); J. Normann Jorgensen, Pia Quist: Bilingual children in monolingual schools (155-174); Guus Extra: From minority programmes to multilingual education (175-206); Ofelia Garcia, Lesley Bartlett, JoAnne Kleifgen: From biliteracy to pluriliteracies (207-228); Monika Rothweiler: Multilingualism and Specific Language Impairment (SLI) (229-246); Manfred Pienemann, Jörg-U. Keßler: Measuring bilingualism (247-278); Joseph Gafaranga: Code-switching as a conversational strategy (279-314) Pieter Muysken: Mixed codes (315-340); Benjamin Bailey: Multilingual forms of talk and identity work (341-370); Pia Quist, J. Normann Jorgensen: Crossing - negotiating social boundaries (371-390); Dennis Day, Johannes Wagner: Bilingual professionals (391-404); Celia Roberts: Multilingualism in the workplace (405-422); David C.S. Li: Multilingualism and commerce (423-446); John Edwards: Societal multilingualism: reality, recognition and response (447-468); Penelope Gardner-Chloros: Multilingualism of autochthonous minorities (469-492); Peter Martin: Multilingualism of new minorities (in migratory contexts) (493-508); Christopher Stroud: Multilingualism in ex-colonial countries (509-538); Monica Heller: Multilingualism and transnationalism (539-554).
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The rise and fall of the ethnic revival : perspectives on language and ethnicity
This book contains 15 essays on the relation of language to ethnicity, race, and culture. Although a wide variety of topics are covered, much of the discussion is intended to contribute to an understanding of the Western \"ethnic revival\" of the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s and the sociology of language in general. Chapter titles are: (1) \"Language, Ethnicity and Racism\"; (2) \"'Am and Goy as Designations for Ethnicity in Selected Books of the Old Testament\"; (3) \"Bilingualism and Biculturism as Individual and as Societal Phenomena\"; (4) \"Language Maintenance and Ethnicity\"; (5) \"'Nothing New Under the Sun': A Case Study of Alternatives in Language and Ethnocultural Identity\"; (6) \"Mother-Tongue Claiming in the United States since 1960: Trends and Correlates\"; (7) \"Ethnicity in Action: The Community Resources of Ethnic Language in the United States\"; (8) \"Ethnic Activists View the Ethnic Revival and Its Language Consequence\"; (9) \"Language and Ethnicity in the Periodical Publications of Four American Ethnic Groups\"; (10) \"The Hispanic Press in the United States: Content and Prospects\"; (11) \"The Significance of the Ethnic-Community Mother-Tongue School\"; (12) \"Ethnocultural Dimensions in the Acquisition and Retention of Biliteracy: A Comparative Ethnography of Four New York City Schools\"; (13) \"Positive Pluralism: Some Overlooked Rationales and Forefathers\"; (14) \"The Whorfian Hypothesis: Varieties of Valuation, Confirmation and Disconfirmation\"; and (15) \"Whorfianism of the Third Kind: Ethnolinguistic Diversity as a Worldwide Societal Asset.\" (KH)
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Language use in rural development : an African perspective
No detailed description available for \"Language Use in Rural Development\".
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