Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : French language
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Bridges School of Language Studies
Author: Bridges School of Language Studies
Author: Book Bridges for ESL Students
Author: Suzanne Elizabeth ReidPublisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 9780810842137
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Provides book titles and commentary that aid in teaching ESL students, showing how each title, ranging from fiction to nonfiction and from history to science, is appropriate for the instruction of children in all age groups.
Bridges and Barriers
Author: Eddie WilliamsPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317639243
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Recent decades have seen sub-Saharan Africa decline in both economic and human terms. The rich North has responded with a barrage of well-publicized initiatives, from pop concerts to international commitments on debt relief, aid, trade and good governance. Among the complex of factors necessary to sustain economic and human development, education receives little media coverage, although it is crucial. However, education must be effective. This book argues that in 'Anglophone' Africa, education is not effective because of the use of English, rather than children's first languages, both as the medium of instruction, and also as the language in which children are first taught to read. Research is presented from Malawi and Zambia, countries with contrasting language policies, using evidence from tests in English and African languages, small-group discussions and classroom observation. The findings show that English-medium policies in Africa do not give students any advantage in English over first-language policies, while the use of English discriminates against girls and rural children. The book concludes that much education in Africa is a barrier rather than a bridge to learning because of the prevailing language ideology, which has resulted in massive over-estimation of the value of English. While appropriate language policies alone will not solve education and development difficulties in Africa, they do have a positive contribution to make. The evidence presented here suggests they are failing to make that contribution.
Teaching for Biliteracy
Author: Karen BeemanPublisher:
ISBN: 9781681256276
Category : Education, Bilingual
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
CALL for Bridges Between School and Academia
Author: Anna TurulaPublisher: Studies in Computer Assisted Language Learning
ISBN: 9783631663356
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This volume looks at different ways in which research and educational practice can be linked. The chapters, contributed by academics and teachers of English, explore areas of such bridge building in the area of computer assisted language learning: teacher training, material writing and sharing, course design.
Framing the Global
Author: Hilary E. KahnPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253012996
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Framing the Global explores new and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of global issues. Essays are framed around the entry points or key concepts that have emerged in each contributor's engagement with global studies in the course of empirical research, offering a conceptual toolkit for global research in the 21st century.
New Bridges Book 4 Student Book
Author: Cherie RempelPublisher:
ISBN: 9781941607060
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Assessing English Language Learners: Bridges to Educational Equity
Author: Margo GottliebPublisher: Corwin Press
ISBN: 1506342159
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
Build the bridges for English language learners to reach success! This thoroughly updated edition of Gottlieb’s classic delivers a complete set of tools, techniques, and ideas for planning and implementing instructional assessment of ELLs. The book includes: A focus on academic language use in every discipline, from mathematics to social studies, within and across language domains Emphasis on linguistically and culturally responsive assessment as a key driver for measuring academic achievement A reconceptualization of assessment “as,” “for,” and “of” learning Reflection questions to stimulate discussion around how students, teachers, and administrators can all have a voice in decision making
When Grit Isn't Enough
Author: Linda F. NathanPublisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 0807042994
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Examines major myths informing American education and explores how educators can better serve students, increase college retention rates, and develop alternatives to college that don’t disadvantage students on the basis of race or income Each year, as the founding headmaster of the Boston Arts Academy (BAA), an urban high school that boasts a 94 percent college acceptance rate, Linda Nathan made a promise to the incoming freshmen: “All of you will graduate from high school and go on to college or a career.” After fourteen years at the helm, Nathan stepped down and took stock of her alumni: of those who went to college, a third dropped out. Feeling like she failed to fulfill her promise, Nathan reflected on ideas she and others have perpetuated about education: that college is for all, that hard work and determination are enough to get you through, that America is a land of equality. In When Grit Isn’t Enough, Nathan investigates five assumptions that inform our ideas about education today, revealing how these beliefs mask systemic inequity. Seeing a rift between these false promises and the lived experiences of her students, she argues that it is time for educators to face these uncomfortable issues head-on and explores how educators can better serve all students, increase college retention rates, and develop alternatives to college that don’t disadvantage students on the basis of race or income. Drawing on the voices of BAA alumni whose stories provide a window through which to view urban education today, When Grit Isn’t Enough helps imagine greater purposes for schooling.