Struggling Learners and Language Immersion Education: Research-Based, Practitioner-Informed Responses to Educators' Top Questions

ISBN-13: 9780984399604 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 160 str.

Tara Williams Fortune; Mandy R. Menke

Opis

This handbook provides dual language and immersion educators with rich information and practical resources that address common concerns with children who struggle with language, literacy and learning. In response to practitioners most pressing questions this book offers case narratives that recount lived experiences with struggling learners from a range of educational specialists, administrators and teachers; background information and research summaries that provide important information about the existing knowledge base on this topic; discussion of issues as they relate to language minority and language majority learners; and guiding principles to inform program policies and practices. Additionally, the handbook includes reference materials and useful web resources to assist educators in meeting the needs of a wide variety of language and learning challenges."