I Am an English-Language Learner: The Real and Unique Stories of Immigrant Children in America

I Am an English-Language Learner: The Real and Unique Stories of Immigrant Children in America

Author: Melissa Campesi

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2019-09-05

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 1684708230

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All around the world, people speak, read, and write in many different languages. Some languages have different alphabet systems, and others make sounds that don't exist in English. Not only can our languages be different, but so can the ways we dress, eat, and greet others. When children come to the United States from other countries and need to learn English, they become English language learners. I Am an English-Language Learner introduces eight children from various countries who are learning English in their new homes. They share what they miss about their native countries, how they feel about living in the United States, and what they dream of doing. Each one has a new story and unique journey, helping everyone understand that the best education comes from learning about one another. This children's book introduces young readers to new customs and cultures through the stories of students who are learning English as a second language.


Teaching English Learners and Immigrant Students in Secondary Schools

Teaching English Learners and Immigrant Students in Secondary Schools

Author: Christian Faltis

Publisher: Prentice Hall

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780131192416

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This practical classroom resource helps teachers address the needs of students with non-parallel schooling, and immigrant English learners who are two or more years below grade level when they enter secondary school. It addresses standards and high stakes testing, arguing that teachers need specialized knowledge to assess English learners in literacy and academic content. This book also features an introduction to the theoretical reasons for the commitments, which are contextualized within historical and political developments within education programs for English learners. It then goes on to show how teachers can use the commitments in practice within real classroom settings for teaching English language arts, science, social studies, and math to English learners. --From publisher's description.


Immigrant Pupils Learn English

Immigrant Pupils Learn English

Author: David Little

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-05-15

Total Pages: 335

ISBN-13: 1107414563

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This volume presents the findings of a study which examined the way immigrant students in Ireland learn English.


Learning a New Land

Learning a New Land

Author: Carola Suárez-Orozco

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2009-06-30

Total Pages: 437

ISBN-13: 0674044118

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One child in five in America is the child of immigrants, and their numbers increase each year. Based on an extraordinary interdisciplinary study that followed 400 newly arrived children from the Caribbean, China, Central America, and Mexico for five years, this book provides a compelling account of the lives, dreams, academic journeys, and frustrations of these youngest immigrants.


Immigrant Children in Transcultural Spaces

Immigrant Children in Transcultural Spaces

Author: Marjorie Faulstich Orellana

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-10-14

Total Pages: 153

ISBN-13: 131761867X

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Grounded in both theory and practice, with implications for both, this book is about children’s perspectives on the borders that society erects, and their actual, symbolic, ideational and metaphorical movement across those borders. Based on extensive ethnographic data on children of immigrants (mostly from Mexico, Central America and the Philippines) as they interact with undergraduate students from diverse linguistic, cultural and racial/ethnic backgrounds in the context of an urban play-based after-school program, it probes how children navigate a multilingual space that involves playing with language and literacy in a variety of forms. Immigrant Children in Transcultural Spaces speaks to critical social issues and debates about education, immigration, multilingualism and multiculturalism in an historical moment in which borders are being built up, torn down, debated and recreated, in both real and symbolic terms; raises questions about the values that drive educational practice and decision-making; and suggests alternatives to the status quo. At its heart, it is a book about how love can serve as a driving force to connect people with each other across all kinds of borders, and to motivate children to engage powerfully with learning and life.


Latino Children Learning English

Latino Children Learning English

Author: Guadalupe Valdes

Publisher: Teachers College Press

Published: 2010-11-25

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780807751442

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This timely and incisive book examines the ways in which English language proficiencies develop in newly arrived immigrant students. Beginning by describing the challenges faced by children who currently attend segregated schools in many parts of the country, the authors offer a detailed account of the developing English language proficiencies of K–3 children from one after-school intervention program. Using the experiences of these children as a lens, the authors debunk commonly held views of young children as rapid and effortless learners of new languages. Essential reading for classroom teachers, students, researchers, and policymakers, this authoritative book: Offers principles for designing an integrated practice for educating English language learners. Describes interactions between volunteer “English Buddies” and ELL children to highlight ways in which children begin to comprehend and produce English. Includes examples of materials and activities that can be used with young ELL children to engage them in new-language interactions. Analyzes the effectiveness of current practices designed to accelerate the second language acquisition process.


Educating Immigrant Children

Educating Immigrant Children

Author: Charles Leslie Glenn

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 758

ISBN-13: 0815314698

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First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.


Promotions Are So Yesterday

Promotions Are So Yesterday

Author: Julie Winkle Giulioni

Publisher: Association for Talent Development

Published: 2022-03-08

Total Pages: 201

ISBN-13: 1952157749

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Promotions Are So Yesterday is the recipient of the 2023 Bronze Medal from the Axiom Business Book Awards in the category of Success/Motivation/Coaching and the 2023 Nautilus Book Award in the category of Business & Leadership (Self Pub/small Press). The time-honored tradition of defining career development exclusively in terms of promotions, moves, and title changes is dead. Beyond, between, and besides the climb up the positional ladder, there are many other ways that employees can—and want to—grow. However, many organizations still operate under the notion that promotions are the only option for career development, leaving employees disengaged, managers frustrated, and the business disadvantaged in its efforts to retain talent. The good news is that career development is so much more than promotions alone, and managers are in a powerful position to redefine career development and create positive results for their employees and their organizations in this area. In Promotions Are So Yesterday, Julie Winkle Giulioni offers you a new approach for developing your employees’ careers and helping them thrive in a company when promotions are not readily available. Discover an easy-to-apply framework of seven alternative dimensions of development (contribution, competence, confidence, connection, challenge, contentment, and choice) that will engage your employees—dynamic opportunities for growth that are completely within your control as a manager. Promotions Are So Yesterday is filled with practical advice, nearly 100 questions to spark reflection and productive dialogue, and actionable templates and tools that managers can use with employees. Help bring your employees and your organization to even greater achievement with a strategy that will increase your employees’ job satisfaction, performance, knowledge, and skills, and strengthen your organization’s workforce.


Gendered Identities and Immigrant Language Learning

Gendered Identities and Immigrant Language Learning

Author: Julia Menard-Warwick

Publisher: Multilingual Matters

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 1847692133

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This ethnographic study of a California English as a Second Language program explores how the gendered life experiences of immigrant adults shape their participation in both the English language classroom and the education of their children, within the contemporary sociohistorical context of Latin American immigration to the United States.