The Hopes And Experiences Of Bilingual Teachers Of English

Author : Melinda Kong
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780429854569

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The Hopes and Experiences of Bilingual Teachers of English by Melinda Kong Pdf

In this age of internationalisation of higher education, many bilingual teachers from non-English-speaking contexts pursue their postgraduate degrees in English-speaking countries. Most programmes focus on providing content knowledge to them, while neglecting their investments. Furthermore, not much attention is given to what these bilingual teachers expect to gain from studying abroad, as well as their lived experiences and identity construction both inside and outside the classroom in English-speaking countries and when they return home. Nevertheless, these dimensions are crucial to their growth as teachers and users of English. This book explores these neglected aspects through case studies of bilinguals from various backgrounds. Through these case studies, the book examines the hopes, struggles and adaptation of bilinguals. It provides insights into what international students should realistically expect when studying overseas, and how to empower bilingual teachers, users and learners of English.

Author : Nancy Lemberger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135453251

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Bilingual Education by Nancy Lemberger Pdf

This book grew out of the joys and challenges the author experienced as a Spanish/English bilingual teacher of culturally and linguistically diverse students. It tells what it is like to be a bilingual teacher. As a result, it helps other teachers and prospective teachers understand the complex nature of bilingual teaching, shares some successful teaching strategies that other teachers have used, and encourages teachers to find their own solutions despite limited support. The book is structured in three parts. The introduction explains how the book evolved, defines its relation to other qualitative research, and offers suggestions for how to use the book. The second part consists of eight bilingual teachers' stories that provide a glimpse of them as people, their schools and programs, their successes and struggles, and their solutions and coping mechanisms within their contexts. It concludes with a discussion chapter that looks at the teachers' collective strengths and struggles comparatively, connecting these to broader issues. The final section presents bilingual education resources -- useful information for practitioners. This includes foundation texts on the theories and practices of bilingual education, demographic information, a glossary of bilingual education terms, listings of curricula, tests, and literature mentioned by the teachers, and professional network sources.

Author : Karen Beeman,Cheryl Urow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Education, Bilingual
ISBN : 1681256274

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Teaching for Biliteracy by Karen Beeman,Cheryl Urow Pdf

Author : Bedrettin Yazan,Kristen Lindahl
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000076103

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Language Teacher Identity in TESOL by Bedrettin Yazan,Kristen Lindahl Pdf

This volume draws on empirical evidence to explore the interplay between language teacher identity (LTI) and professional learning and instruction in the field of TESOL. In doing so, it makes a unique contribution to the field of language teacher education. By reconceptualizing teacher education, teaching, and ongoing teacher learning as a continuous, context-bound process of identity work, Language Teacher Identity in TESOL discusses how teacher identity serves as a framework for classroom practice, professional, and personal growth. Divided into five sections, the text explores key themes including narratives and writing; multimodal spaces; race, ethnicity, and language; teacher emotions; and teacher educator-researcher practices. The 15 chapters offer insight into the experiences of preservice teachers, in-service teachers, and teacher educators in global TESOL contexts including Canada, Japan, Korea, Norway, Sri Lanka, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States. This text will be an ideal resource for researchers, academics, and scholars interested in furthering their knowledge of concepts grounding LTI, as well as teachers and teacher educators seeking to implement identity-oriented approaches in their own pedagogical practices.

Author : Liliana Minaya-Rowe
Publisher : IAP
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2002-06-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781607525240

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Teacher Training and Effective Pedagogy in the Context of Student Diversity by Liliana Minaya-Rowe Pdf

The purpose of this volume is two-fold. First, the book attempts to initiate a research-based dialogue from a variety of perspectives specifically about teacher training and teaching in the context of student linguistic and cultural diversity; and, second, to cast a wide net over three major areas of professional development that have the potential to impact on teacher quality and on the educational services provided to ELLs at all levels of instruction. This book represents a first attempt to a quiet revolution going on in teacher education (Johnson, 2000). It allows the reader to uncover research activities and experiences that constitute individual teacher education program initiatives. A revolution, because it is stirring the very essence of what stands at the core of teacher education, a core that has long been based more on training to teach monolingual English speaking students and less on teaching ELLs, their first and second language development, using their bilingualism to teach academics, and on the process of becoming an effective teacher of ELLs. This state-of-the-art review brings together research on effective pedagogy and teacher training. The nine feature chapters are directly concerned with effective new structures and practices for professional development and are presented in a framework that considers a wide spectrum of topics to address issues such as: what teachers need to understand about English language learners, what kind of professional experiences are likely to facilitate those understandings, and what kinds of teacher education programs and school settings are able to support their ongoing learning. The authors also discuss the implications of their work for helping English language learners connect and benefit from school from the points of view of (1) school reform, (2) teachers’ bilingual proficiencies, (3) teachers’ knowledge and beliefs, and (4) teacher training programming and sustainability.

Author : Mark Shiu-kee Shum,Peter Mickan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317210009

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Researching Chinese Language Education by Mark Shiu-kee Shum,Peter Mickan Pdf

The culmination of more than a decade of research, this compelling volume offers a fresh approach for applying functional linguistics to assess student performance, to inform the teaching and learning of Chinese and to design curriculum and teaching materials. Documenting authentic systemic functional linguistics (SFL) studies in researching and teaching Chinese as a first or second language, this research is set in the multilingual settings of Hong Kong and Australia. The experiences of SFL and genre teaching in English have been well demonstrated as valid, viable and practical in different contexts; however this volume covers the relatively new domain of research into the applications of SFL to the teaching of Chinese. Using SFL as the research framework, the authors cover three major areas in Chinese language education: effective pedagogies, curriculum and material design, and text analysis. Covering major local curriculum reforms and the rapid growth of International Baccalaureate programmes worldwide, this book will be of interest to linguists, language teachers and teacher educators and those involved in the teaching and learning of Chinese around the world.

Author : Keiko Koda,Junko Yamashita
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781351727082

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Reading to Learn in a Foreign Language by Keiko Koda,Junko Yamashita Pdf

This book describes a theory-guided approach to Foreign Language (FL) course development, implementation, instruction and assessment. It documents the development and implementation of a theory-guided approach designed to exploit cross-linguistically sharable competencies as resources for promoting FL learning. The volume delineates the processes of (a) identifying cross-linguistically sharable competencies, (b) exploring ways of exploiting sharable competencies as resources in promoting language skills through their purposeful use for content learning, (c) implementing the instructional approach in multiple EFL classrooms, and (d) evaluating the approach by comparing learning outcomes across classrooms. It presents a solid conceptual framework that integrates theories in multiple research domains, including second language acquisition, knowledge acquisition, and language assessment. It also provides detailed descriptions of framework construction and classroom implementation – the two processes that are integral to course design and development.

Author : Mariana Pacheco,P. Zitlali Morales,Colleen Hamilton
Publisher : IAP
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781641135092

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Transforming Schooling for Second Language Learners by Mariana Pacheco,P. Zitlali Morales,Colleen Hamilton Pdf

The purpose of Transforming Schooling for Second Language Learners: Theoretical Insights, Policies, Pedagogies, and Practices is to bring together educational researchers and practitioners who have implemented, documented, or examined policies, pedagogies, and practices in and out of classrooms and in real and virtual contexts that are in some way transforming what we know about the extent to which emergent bilinguals (EBs) learn and achieve in educational settings. In the following chapters, scholars and researchers identify both (1) the current state of schooling for EBs, from their perspective, and (2) the particular ways that policies, pedagogies, and/or practices transform schooling as it currently exists for EBs in discernible ways based on their scholarship and research. Drawing on current and seminal research in fields including second language acquisition, applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, and educational linguistics, contributing authors draw on complementary theoretical, methodological, and philosophical frameworks that attend to the social, cultural, political, and ideological dimensions of being and becoming bi/multilingual and bi/multiliterate in schools and in the United States. In sum, we are deeply committed to asserting hope, possibility, and potential to discussions and discourses about bi/multilingual students. We value the urgency around improving the conditions, experiences, and circumstances in which they are learning languages and academic content. Our aim is to highlight perspectives, conceptualizations, orientations, and ideologies that disrupt and contest legacies of deficit thinking, linguistic purism, language standardization, and racism and the racialization of ethnolinguistic minorities.

Author : Deborah K. Palmer
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781788921459

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Teacher Leadership for Social Change in Bilingual and Bicultural Education by Deborah K. Palmer Pdf

Leadership takes on a tone of urgency when we are struggling for justice. At the same time, the right to lead – the agency to embrace a leadership identity – can also feel more distant when we are marginalized by the dominant society. For bilingual education teachers working with immigrant communities, the development of critical consciousness, pride in the cultural and linguistic resources of the bilingual community, the vocabulary to name and face marginalization, and a strong professional network are fundamental to their development of professional identities as leaders and advocates. Based on the experiences of 53 Spanish-English bilingual teachers in Central Texas, this book aims to explore, define, and understand bilingual teacher leadership. It merges the themes of leadership, teacher preparation and bilingual education and is essential reading for bilingual or ESL teachers, teacher educators and researchers serving an increasingly transnational/translingual student body.

Author : Coreen Sears
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781783093281

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Second Language Students in English-Medium Classrooms by Coreen Sears Pdf

Second Language Students in English-Medium Classrooms offers a real-life practical guide to teachers that will enable them to serve students from many linguistic and cultural backgrounds effectively. Written in an accessible manner it includes practical references to the latest uses of embedded technology and numerous exemplary strategies and resources that are increasingly becoming customary usage in international schools. The book also tackles the controversial and politically charged issues of the overwhelming use of English in a global context and the use of students' mother tongues in English-medium classrooms, which has not yet been fully accepted as well as the overwhelming use of English in a global context. Written by an author with over 35 years' experience, this book is an essential resource for all teachers, administrators and parents of children in international schools.

Author : Ofelia García,Colin Baker
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 1853592668

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Policy and Practice in Bilingual Education by Ofelia García,Colin Baker Pdf

A collection of pivotal papers from 1986-1993 on bilingualism and bilingual education, grouped in sections on policy and legislation, implementation of bilingual policy in schools, bilingualism in instruction, and using the bilingualism of the school community. Articles conclude with suggested student activities and discussion questions, encouraging students to take on an advocacy-oriented role. The reader can be used alone or with the publisher's Foundations of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism. No index. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Christian Abello-Contesse,Paul M. Chandler,María Dolores López-Jiménez,Rubén Chacón-Beltrán
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781783090709

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Bilingual and Multilingual Education in the 21st Century by Christian Abello-Contesse,Paul M. Chandler,María Dolores López-Jiménez,Rubén Chacón-Beltrán Pdf

This book includes the work of 20 specialists working in various educational contexts around the world to create comprehensive and multidimensional coverage of current bilingual initiatives. Themes covered include issues in language use in classrooms; participant perspectives on bilingual education experiences; and the language needs of bi- and multilingual students in monolingual schools.

Author : Yvonne S. Freeman,David E. Freeman
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781784414931

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Research on Preparing Inservice Teachers to Work Effectively with Emergent Bilinguals by Yvonne S. Freeman,David E. Freeman Pdf

This volume includes chapters from educators across the U.S. who are preparing inservice teachers to work with emergent bilingual students in classrooms.

Author : María Cioè-Peña
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781800411302

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(M)othering Labeled Children by María Cioè-Peña Pdf

This book takes a distinctive approach to exploring the experiences and identities of minoritized Latinx mothers who are raising a child who is labeled as both an emergent bilingual and dis/abled. It showcases relationships between families and schools and reveals the myriad of ways in which school-based decisions regarding disability, language and academic placement impact family dynamics. Treating the mothers as experts, this book uses testimonios to explore not only what mothers know but also how they develop funds of knowledge and how they apply them to their child’s education. The stories shed light on how mothers perceive their child’s disability, how they engage with their child and the value they place on bilingualism. The narratives reveal the complex lives mothers lead and the ways in which they strive to meet the academic and socioemotional needs of their children, regardless of the financial, physical and emotional costs to them. This book has significant implications for researchers and professionals working in bilingual education, special education, inclusive education and disability studies in education.

Author : Victoria Benz
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781783099191

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Bilingual Childcare by Victoria Benz Pdf

This ethnographic study explores aspects of bilingual education in two early childhood German–English education centres in Australia. Using various sources of data and multiple methods of analysis, it investigates the processes at work when establishing and implementing a bilingual programme and examines the language attitudes, ideologies and practices of the parents, educators and administrators involved. It addresses the complex relationship between the childcare provider and its clientele in its socio-political context in an attempt to arrive at a broader understanding of institutional bilingual education in early childhood. The book will be of interest to graduate students and researchers in bilingual education, language ideology and early childhood education studies, as well as to teachers, trainee teachers and childcare providers.