Constructivist Strategies for Teaching English Language Learners

✍ Scribed by Sharon Adelman Reyes, Trina Lynn Vallone

• Publisher: Corwin
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 217
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book provides guidelines for using constructivist teaching methods with English language learners and includes classroom examples, grade-level connections, and strategies that promote educational equity.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Contents
Foreword
Preface
About the Authors
About the Contributor
Chapter 1 - Perspectives in Second Language Acquisition and Learning
Language Acquisition
Language and Cognitive Development
Language and Academic Content
Language and Culture
Chapter 2 - Program Models for Second Language Learners
Additive Versus Subtractive Program Models
Mainstream with Modifications
English as a Second Language (ESL)
Transitional Program of Bilingual Instruction (TPI)
Maintenance
Submersion
Submersion Versus Immersion
Immersion
Structured English Immersion (SEI)
Integrated
Enrichment
Newcomer Programs
Bilingual Whole Language and Beyond
Chapter 3 - Perspectives in Constructivism
Overview of Constructivist Perspectives
Cognitive Constructivist Perspective
Social Constructivist Perspective
Guiding Principles for Constructivist Classrooms
Concluding Thoughts
Chapter 4 - Constructivist Practice for English Language Learners
Families and Communities
Instructional Practice in Language Arts
Instructional Practice in the Content Areas
Assessment
Summary of Suggested Practice for Constructivist Second Language Classrooms
Chapter 5 - Perspectives in Critical Pedagogy
Critical Pedagogy: A Different Perspective
Critical Pedagogy: Guiding Principles
Identity Formation in Critical Classrooms
Chapter 6 - Constructivist Classroom Connections: The Great Second-Grade Bug Invasion
Guidelines for Practice
Chapter 7 - Constructivist Classroom Connections: Intermediate Newcomers Meet the Universal Chicken
Guidelines for Practice
Chapter 8 - Critical Classroom Connections: Eighth Graders Face a Fence on the Border
Concluding Thoughts
Chapter 9 - Toward Critical Constructivist Practice with Second Language Learners
Appendix
Glossary
References
Index