English-Only Instruction and Immigrant Students in Secondary Schools: A Critical Examination

ISBN-13: 9780805825138 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 320 str.

Lee Gunderson

Opis

This book-- for teachers, teacher educators, school and district administrators, policy makers, and researchers who want to know about literacy, cultural diversity, and students who speak little or no English-- offers a rich picture of the incred

Recenzje

"Gunderson's book makes an important contribution to the literature on the academic achievement of immigrant students.  It represents essential reading for researchers and policy-makers concerned with school improvement in contexts of increasing cultural and linguistic diversity...Gunderson succeeds admirably in revealing the human face behind the sometimes dense and complex quantitative data."--Jim Cummins, The University of Toronto

Spis treści

Contents: Preface: Hopes and Aspirations. Part I: Background and Design. Increasing Diversity and English and Academic Achievement. Reading, Language, and Immigrant Achievement. The Setting, the Population, and the Measures. Part II: Findings of the Studies. Demographic and Descriptive Findings. Reading Models and Traditional Analyses. Multiple Case Studies, Students' Views, and Secondary Achievement. One Immigrant-One Story. Part III: Conclusions and Implications. Summary, Conclusions, Speculations, Observations, and Conundrums.

O autorze

Lee Gunderson