Language and Learning in Multilingual Classrooms: A Practical Approach

✍ Scribed by Elizabeth Coelho

Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Year: 2012
Tongue: English
Leaves: 373
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book offers practical research-based advice for teachers on how to adapt school and classroom procedures, curriculum content and instructional strategies in order to provide a supportive learning environment for students of minority language backgrounds who are learning the language of instruction as they are learning the curriculum.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Section 1: Getting Started
1. The New Arrival
2. First Days and Beyond
Section 2: Planning: A Whole-School Approach
3. Linguistic and Academic Support for Newcomers and Language Learners
4. Differentiated Instruction and Assessment for Newcomers and Language Learners
5. Planning Ahead
Section 3: In the Classroom
6. An Inclusive Learning Environment
7. Making Space for Community Languages
8. Oral Language in Every Classroom
9. Reading and Writing in Every Classroom
10. Vocabulary Instruction in Every Classroom
Afterword
Index

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