Literacy and the Bilingual Learner: Texts and Practices in London Schools

✍ Scribed by Catherine Wallace (auth.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 2013
Tongue: English
Leaves: 266
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction: Setting the Scene....Pages 1-14
Texts and Practices: Sociolinguistic and Political Perspectives....Pages 15-43
Literacy Instruction and the Bilingual Learner....Pages 44-78
Bilingual Learners in a Multilingual Primary School: Literacy Narratives about Texts and Practices....Pages 79-125
New Arrivals in a Multilingual Secondary School: Literacy Narratives about Texts and Practices....Pages 126-156
New Arrivals in the Classroom: Literacy and the Curriculum....Pages 157-191
Adult Bilingual Learners: The Foregrounding of Critical Literacy in the Classroom....Pages 192-225
Pulling the Threads Together....Pages 226-238
Back Matter....Pages 239-256

✦ Subjects

Popular Science in Education; Language Teaching; Sociolinguistics; Literacy

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