Interdisciplinary Research and Innovation in Bilingual and Second Language Teacher Education
Interdisciplinary Research and Innovation in Bilingual and Second Language Teacher Education

Author: M. Dolores Ramírez-Verdugo

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-04-12

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 1040009808

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The book provides a comprehensive overview of international pedagogical approaches, research, innovation experiences, and best practices in bilingual and second language education to enhance bilingual teacher education programs. The book clearly outlines the need for an interdisciplinary and interconnected approach to effecting successful bilingual teacher education programs. Featuring practical examples from a wide range of geographic contexts throughout, the volume comprises diverse pedagogical approaches to bilingual and second language teacher education, bilingual and plurilingual education, storytelling, digital storytelling and digital technology, and content and language integrated learning (CLIL), including methodological strategies in bilingual education as well as quality standards in CLIL syllabus design assessment. The book concludes by reflecting on the lessons learned from research, and identifies future directions for bilingual education programs and bilingual teacher education. The volume will be of interest to students and scholars in bilingual and second language education, bilingual teacher education, CLIL, as well as educators and stakeholders in bilingual, CLIL, and English teacher education degree programs.

Assessing Evaluation Studies
Assessing Evaluation Studies

Author: National Research Council

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 1992-02-01

Total Pages: 139

ISBN-13: 0309047285

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Bilingual education has long been the subject of major disagreements in this country. This book provides a detailed critique of the two largest studies of U.S. bilingual education programs. It examines the goals of the studies and what can be learned from them. In addition, using these studies as cases, this book provides guidelines on how to plan large evaluation studies to achieve useful answers to major policy questions about education.

Learning in Two Languages
Learning in Two Languages

Author: Gary Imhoff

Publisher: Transaction Publishers

Published: 1990-01-01

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 9781412827416

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After being off the public agenda for a decade, the subject of bilingual education is once again at the center of public debate. Assumptions about the values of cultural pluralism and the rise of the "unmeltable ethnics" so dominant for the last twenty years have met a renewed public affirmation of the value of assimilation. In the United States "bilingual education" refers to programs that emphasize students' home languages and culture; teach academic subject matter in students' home languages; and introduce English into the curriculum at a deliberate pace. Students in such programs are generally members of immigrant groups and racial and ethnic minorities, and they usually come from lower-class economic backgrounds. Over the years, a number of different objectives have been advanced for bilingual education programs. In the 1960s and early 1970s, educators believed that these programs should be evaluated by students' linguistic proficiency and progress on standardized tests. More recently, advocates have promoted more subjective measures, such as students' enhanced sense of well-being and self-esteem. And yet others argue that the real goals of bilingual education should be social change and economic redistribution, and that programs should be evaluated by these long-range goals. The conference that gave rise to the essays in this volume was the first national symposium at which advocates and critics of bilingual education confronted each other's arguments face-to-face. These essays address the objectives by which bilingual education should be evaluated; the administrative practices by which programs are run; and the latest research findings on the effectiveness of bilingual education. Authors include Henry Trueba, Rudolph Troike, James Banks, Joshua Fishman, and Christine Rossell. "Learning in Two Languages "will interest educators and policy researchers, students of ethnic relations, and others concerned about the future direction of U.S. educational policies in this controversial area.

Proceedings of the Eighth Annual International Bilingual Bicultural Education Conference
Proceedings of the Eighth Annual International Bilingual Bicultural Education Conference

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1981

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13:

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The following papers are included: "Bilingual Education in the Eighties: Making a Good Thing Better"; "How Bilingual Multicultural Education Can Save the World"; "Some Personal Reflections on the Bilingual Education Movement and the Challenge Ahead"; "Toward Understanding Cultural Difference in Public Education"; "Cultural Pluralism in Japan"; "A Comparison of Peruvian and United States Bilingual Education Programs"; "A Renaissance of Native American Indian Culture through Tribal Self-Determination and Indian Control of Indian Education"; "Motivation Based on a Chicano Value System"; "Language Renewal: Strategies for Native Americans"; "Alternative Approaches in Bilingual Education Teacher Training"; "Guidelines for Program Development in Teacher Education for Multilingual Settings"; "A Bilingual Homebound Tutorial Program for All Ages"; "Developing Bilingual-Vocational and Vocational English as a Second Language at the College Level"; "Can and Should the Laredo Experiment Be Duplicated Elsewhere?"; "College-Level Bilingual Education: Curriculum Planning and the Relationship of English and Home Language Development"; "The Misplaced Child: Does Linguistically Different Mean Learning Disabled?"; "Assisting Nonlearners in Bilingual Programs"; "Materials Development for Individualized Instruction in the Bilingual Classroom"; "Language Experience for the Bilingual Child"; "Social Factors in Second Language Acquisition: Peer-Tutoring Intervention"; and "Hortographia Himortal--A Third Look: Expanded Subcategorization of Bilingual Spanish-English Spelling Errors." (JB)