Transforming Literacy Education for Long-Term English Learners: Recognizing Brilliance in the Undervalued

ISBN-13: 9781138558113 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 112 str.

Maneka Brooks

Opis

Grounded in research on English language learner students, this volume provides a much-needed insight into the day-to-day needs of long-term English language learners (LTELs) and sheds new light on their strengths and the social context behind them.

Spis treści

Chapter 1. More than Long-term English Learners: Reframing the Education of an Under-served Population. Chapter 2: Bilingualism and Students who are Labeled LTELs. Chapter 3: Local Texts: The Textual Environment of Biology and English Language Arts. Chapter 4: Strong and Loud Readers: Academic Reading in the Classroom. Chapter 5: Constructing Meaning Independently: An In-Depth Analysis of Reading from an Individual Perspective.  Chapter 6: Recognizing Brilliance in the Undervalued: Transforming Literacy Education for English-speaking Bilingual Adolescents.

O autorze

Maneka Deanna Brooks is an Assistant Professor of Reading Education at Texas State University, USA.