Bilingualism, Education and Identity (University of Wales Press - Writers of Wales) (Paperback)
by Bob Morris Jones (Author), Paul A. S. Ghuman (Author)
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This work analyzes and discusses various facets of bilingualism from an international perspective. Topics covered include the relationship of bilingualism and intelligence, the social and geographical bases of bilingualism, acculturation, and lexical development. The main emphasis, however, is on the field of bilingual education, with papers on school systems in Wales, Australia and Nigeria. These discussions examine linguistic aspects of curricular design, language-teaching methodology, and assessment.
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Text: English, Welsh
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Paperback: 267 pages
Publisher: University of Wales Press (June 1, 1995)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0708312888
ISBN-13: 978-0708312889
Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.7 inches
The Highly Selective Dictionary of Golden Adjectives: For the Extraordinarily Literate (Hardcover)
by Eugene Ehrlich (Author)
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Adjectives have long suffered from bad press. For many years, English teachers have been fond of telling students that "adjectives are the enemy of nouns, and adverbs are the enemy of everything else."
While it's still advisable to heed your English teacher's advice on most other matters, The Highly Selective Dictionary of Golden Adjectives for the Extraordinarily Literate proves that breaking certain rules can make written and spoken language that much livelier, adding much-needed color, style, and adornment. With this addition to the popular Highly Selective series, the "golden" adjective, at last, gets the star treatment it deserves. From adventitious to zaftig, renowned lexicographer Eugene Ehrlich has collected more than 850 of the most interesting and engaging adjectives in the English language and has provided concise definitions and instructive usage examples. Whether you're a writer, a speaker, or a word buff, this compendious, trenchant, laudable, and all-around fantabulous volume will help you put panache back into your prose.
About the Author
Eugene Ehrlich, formerly a member of the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, is the coeditor of The Oxford American Dictionary and the author of dozens of books, including Veni, Vidi, Vici and the classic bestseller Amo, Amas, Amat and More. He lives in Mamaroneck, New York.
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Hardcover: 272 pages
Publisher: Collins; 1 edition (July 9, 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0060186364
ISBN-13: 978-0060186364
Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.8 x 0.9 inches
World English: From Aloha to Zed (Hardcover)
by Robert Hendrickson (Author)
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Around the world, more than a billion people speak English, some fluently and some with only a passing familiarity. Here Hendrickson has compiled a fair representation of words spoken by English speakers of many types, balancing the number of words with the detail of their definitions in a single-volume dictionary. Hendrickson's love of the English language is apparent in his unusual presentation of the book's entries, which provide etymology and region of origin. The heavy emphasis on words from North America and the British Isles is, however, unfortunate. Many sources already cover idioms and expressions from these regions, and the expressions that have gained popularity in places where English is spoken less than perfectly are often the most interesting and illuminating. Hendrickson's previous 25 books include Salty Words, a book about sailors' lexicon, and Animal Crackers, about words we have derived from our relationships with animals. While his latest is entertaining and informative, it is not a topnotch reference book. Manya Chylinski, Ernst & Young Ctr. for Business Knowledge, Boston
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Around the world, more than a billion people speak English, some fluently and some with only a passing familiarity. Here Hendrickson has compiled a fair representation of words spoken by English speakers of many types, balancing the number of words with the detail of their definitions in a single-volume dictionary. Hendrickson's love of the English language is apparent in his unusual presentation of the book's entries, which provide etymology and region of origin. The heavy emphasis on words from North America and the British Isles is, however, unfortunate. Many sources already cover idioms and expressions from these regions, and the expressions that have gained popularity in places where English is spoken less than perfectly are often the most interesting and illuminating. Hendrickson's previous 25 books include Salty Books, a book about sailors' lexicon, and Animal Crackers, about words we have derived from our relationship with animals. While his latest is entertaining and informing, it is not a topnotch reference book.
--Library Journal
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Hardcover: 272 pages
Publisher: Wiley (April 13, 2001)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0471345180
ISBN-13: 978-0471345183
Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.3 x 1 inches
A Career in Foreign Languages
作者：Institute for Career Research
A Career in Foreign Languages: Translating, Interpreting : in Our Interconnected World of Commerce and Culture the Need for People with Bilingual Skills Continues to Grow.
作者：Institute for Career Research
由Institute for Career Research出版, 2001
ISBN 1585112593, 9781585112593
20 页
Breaking the Boundaries: Migrant Workers' Children in the Ec (Language and Education Library) (Paperback)
by Euan Reid (Author), Hans H. Reich (Editor)
作者：Euan Reid, Hans H. Reich, Inc NetLibrary
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Breaking the Boundaries: Migrant Workers' Children in the Ec
作者：Euan Reid, Hans H. Reich, Inc NetLibrary
由NetLibrary, Incorporated出版, 1992
ISBN 0585171580, 9780585171586
Building Bridges: Multilingual Resources for Children (Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, No 4) (Paperback)
by Multilingual Resources for Children Proj (Other Contributor)
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Building Bridges: Multilingual Resources for Children
作者：Multilingual Resources for Children Project
投稿人 Multilingual Resources for Children Project
由Multilingual Matters出版, 1995
ISBN 1853592900, 9781853592904
111 页
Child-Rearing in Ethnic Minorities (Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 12) (Paperback)
by J. S. Dosanjh (Author), Paul A. Singh Ghuman (Author)
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Paperback: 228 pages
Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited (May 1997)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1853593656
ISBN-13: 978-1853593659
Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.8 x 0.6 inches
Curriculum Related Assessment, Cummins and Bilingual Children (Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, No 8) (Paperback)
by Tony Cline (Editor) "The bilingual children of the title are those children whose circumstances mean that they have to alternate between the use of two or more languages..." (more)
Key Phrases: bilingual support teacher, providing contextual support, curriculum related assessment, National Curriculum, Haworth Joyce Leeds City Council, Multilingual Matters (more...)
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Paperback: 147 pages
Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited (January 1996)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1853592706
ISBN-13: 978-1853592706
Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.4 x 1.3 inches
Shipping Weight: 7 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Dual Language Education (Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 28) (Paperback)
by Kathryn Lindholm-Leary (Author)
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Dual language education is a programme that combines language minority and language majority students for instruction through two languages. This book provides the conceptual background for the programme and discusses major implementation issues. Research finding summarize language proficiency and achievement outcomes from 8000 students at 20 schools, along with teacher and parent attitudes.
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Paperback: 370 pages
Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited (August 2001)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1853595314
ISBN-13: 978-1853595318
Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.8 x 0.9 inches
English in Europe: The Acquisition of a Third Language (Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 19) (Paperback)
by Jasone Cenoz (Editor), Ulrike Jessner (Editor)
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This work is about the increasing use of English as a lingua franca in the multilingual European context. It provides an up-to-date overview of the sociolinguistic, psycholinguistic and educational aspects of research on third language acquisition by focusing on English as a third language.
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Paperback: 271 pages
Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited (April 2000)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1853594792
ISBN-13: 978-1853594793
Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.9 inches
European Models of Bilingual Education (Multilingual Matters) (Hardcover)
by Hugo Baetens Beardsmore (Editor)
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This book describes well-established, state-funded bilingual education experiences in various countries in Western Europe as alternative models to classical immersion. Areas covered include bilingual education for minorities and majorities, for threatened and stable communities, border areas, immigrants and "European" schools. Practical issues are specifically highlighted, including an administrator's and teacher's perspective.
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Hardcover: 205 pages
Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited (April 1993)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1853591831
ISBN-13: 978-1853591839
Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6.5 x 0.8 inches
The Case of Bilingual Education Strategies
作者：Michael M. Meyer, Stephen E. Fienberg, National Research Council (U.S.). Panel to Review Evaluation Studies of Bilingual Education, National Research Council (U.S.), ebrary, Inc, Inc NetLibrary, Panel to Review Evaluation Studies of Bilingual Education
Providing a detailed critique of the two largest studies of US bilingual education programs, this book examines the goals of the studies and what can be learned from them. Using these studies as cases, it provides guidelines on how to plan large evaluation studies to achieve useful answers to major policy questions about education.
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The Case of Bilingual Education Strategies
作者：Michael M. Meyer, Stephen E. Fienberg, National Research Council (U.S.). Panel to Review Evaluation Studies of Bilingual Education, National Research Council (U.S.), ebrary, Inc, Inc NetLibrary, Panel to Review Evaluation Studies of Bilingual Education
投稿人 National Academy of Sciences
由National Academy Press出版, 1992
ISBN 0309047285, 9780309047289
128 页
Evaluating Bilingual Education
作者：Merrill Swain, Sharon Lapkin
"Funded by the Ministry of Education in the Province of Ontario, and the Office of Research and Development of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education"--P. ix.
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Evaluating Bilingual Education: A Canadian Case Study
作者：Merrill Swain, Sharon Lapkin
由Multilingual Matters出版, 1982
来自 密歇根大学
数字化日期：2008年4月24日
ISBN 0905028104, 9780905028101
117 页
Foundations of Bilingual Education And Bilingualism (Paperback)
by Colin Baker (Author)
Key Phrases: language bilingual schools, majority language children, heritage language education, United States, Multilingual Matters, New York (more...)
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The fourth edition of this best-selling book provides a comprehensive introduction to bilingualism and bilingual education. Written as an introductory text from a cross-disciplinary perspective, 19 chapters cover individual and societal issues in minority and majority languages.
About the Author
Colin Baker holds a Personal Chair of the University of Wales, and teaches in the School of Education at the University of Wales, Bangor. Some of his previously published books with Multilingual Matters include: Attitudes and Language (1992), a Parents’ and Teachers’ Guide to Bilingualism (second edition in 2000), the Encyclopedia of Bilingualism and Bilingual Education (1998 - with Sylvia Prys Jones) and The Care and Education of Young Bilinguals (2000). The previous editions of this book were published in 1993,1996 and 2001.
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Paperback: 492 pages
Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited; 4 edition (February 28, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 185359864X
ISBN-13: 978-1853598647
Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7 x 1 inches
Helping Bilingual Pupils to Access the Curriculum (Paperback)
by Geri Smyth (Author) "This chapter begins with an overview of education and the linguistic make-up of schools in the United Kingdom (UK)..." (more)
Key Phrases: photocopiable format, monolingual curriculum, bilingual pupils, Chih Hai, Mai Ye, May Lee (more...)
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This book offers practical guidance for teachers working with bilingual pupils in mainstream primary and secondary education and aims to help teachers make the curriculum as accessible as possible to these children. It offers examples of the good practice that has evolved around teaching bilingual children in the classroom.
The author provides advice on how to tackle subject areas; guidance on planning lessons; photocopiable proformas for use in planning; case studies; suggested approaches for dealing with common difficulties in texts; and advice on working with bilingual parents.
Teachers, student teachers, teaching assistants, English as a Second Language (ESL) and English as an Additional Language (EAL) coordinators will find this book helps them work effectively with bilingual children in mainstream settings.
About the Author
Geri Smyth is Lecturer in Primary Education at Strathclyde University, with a particular interest in mainstream support for bilingual learners. She regularly delivers INSET to primary and secondary teachers.
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Paperback: 128 pages
Publisher: David Fulton Publish; 1 edition (June 23, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1853468762
ISBN-13: 978-1853468766
Identity and the Young English Language Learner (Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 36) (Paperback)
by Elaine Mellen Day (Author)
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This longitudinal, ethnographic case study examines the language socialization experiences of Hari, a Punjabi-speaking English language learner integrated in a mainstream kindergarten classroom in an urban area of British Columbia, Canada. The study uses sociocultural and critical/poststructural theoretical perspectives to explore the intimate connection between learning, identity and social membership in Hari's learning path. The book highlights the political and affective dynamics of classroom relationships and their unconscious as well as conscious dimensions and should be of interest to all researchers, students, and educators involved with minority language children in educational contexts.
About the Author
Elaine Day is a Research Associate at Simon Fraser University (Vancouver, Canada). She is co-author of the book Studies in Immersion Education published by Multilingual Matters. Currently she is studying the language socialization experiences of minority language and French immersion children in late elementary school and is a member of the Canadian Language and Literacy Research Network.
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Paperback: 120 pages
Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited (September 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1853595977
ISBN-13: 978-1853595974
Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.8 x 0.4 inches
Multicultural Child Care
Multicultural Child Care (Bilingual Education and Bilingualism ; 9) (Paperback)
by Paul Vedder (Author), Ellen Bouwer (Author), Trees Pels (Author)
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Paperback: 136 pages
Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited (October 1995)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1853593079
ISBN-13: 978-1853593079
Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.8 x 0.4 inches
Language Distribution Issues in Bilingual Schooling (Multilingual Matters 56) (Paperback)
by Rodolfo Jacobson (Author), Christian Faltis (Author)
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Paperback: 208 pages
Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited (April 1990)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1853590452
ISBN-13: 978-1853590450
Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.8 x 0.5 inches
Language Minority Students in the Mainstream Classroom\
Language Minority Students in the Mainstream Classroom (Bilingual Education and Bilingualism No 7) (Paperback)
by Angela L. Carrasquillo (Author), Vivian Rodriguez (Author)
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INTRODUCTION This book begins to address the need facing many educators in the United States and other countries in the English-speaking world, how to teach students whose primary language is not English. The purpose of this book is to make mainstream educators aware that language minority students, especially the limited English proficient (LEP), need special attention: appropriate assessment, appropriate language environment, a challenging curriculum and a creative delivery of instruction relevant to their English language development as well as their performance in subject matter content and skills. The book has been written from the perspective of helping educators in the mainstream classroom to integrate language and content areas into classrooms where there are language minority students who are not totally proficient in the English language. Schools impose many language demands on all students, requiring them to use and think about language in ways unlike those of many LEP students' homes. These demands involve the conventions of reading and writing as well as the verbal and non-verbal conventions of the interactions in which communication takes place in the classroom. Lack of understanding of the communicative conventions that apply in the classroom may be an important factor in the poor school achievement of many language minority students. Limited English proficient students not only need to know the content of the correct answer but also how to present that answer in a way that will be socially acceptable to the teacher and the school community in general. As Jordan and Joesting (1983) say, "It seems reasonable to conclude that minority children, whatever their first language may be, often enter school with two strikes against them. Unlike the majority culture children, they must learn not only academic content but a new set of communicative conventions at the same time" (p. 217). At the classroom level, modifications are needed in the content and the manner teachers organise and deliver instruction to students and the way teachers assess language content learning. For this reason, all the chapters of this book give constant attention to the following general language principles: Vocabulary and technical terms associated with the subject matter; content (mathematics, social studies, and science) need to be consciously addressed in planning and delivering instruction; Language functions need to be carefully integrated into the curriculum for effective academic communication. These language functions include, but are not exclusive to informing, explaining, summarising, rephrasing, classifying, and evaluating; Each curriculum area has language structures and discourse features that are different and may impede LEP students' performance at high levels of cognitive functioning; There are different language skills emphasised in the classroom for different academic functions that may not yet be mastered by LEP students. Among these are included listening comprehension for academic explanations, reading for information, speaking for oral presentations, writing for presentation of written, or oral reports.
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Paperback: 187 pages
Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited (October 1995)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1853592978
ISBN-13: 978-1853592973
Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 7 x 0.5 inches
Language Revitalization Processes and Prospects Quichua in the Ecuadorian Andes
Language Revitalization Processes and Prospects: Quichua in the Ecuadorian Andes (Paperback)
by Kendall A. King (Author)
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This work explores education and community efforts to revitalize the Quichua language in two indigenous Andean communities of southern Equador. Analyzing the linguistic, social, and cultural processes or positive language shift, this book contributes to our understanding of formal and informal educational efforts to revitalize threatened languages.
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Paperback: 258 pages
Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited (November 2000)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1853594946
ISBN-13: 978-1853594946
Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.8 x 0.6 inches