This comprehensive volume describes evidence-based strategies for supporting English language learners (ELLs) by promoting meaningful communication and language use across the curriculum. Leading experts explain how and why learning is different for ELLs and pinpoint specific best practices for the classroom, illustrated with vivid examples. Particular attention is given to ways in which learning English is intertwined with learning the student's home language. The book addresses both assessment and instruction for typically developing ELLs and those with language disabilities and disorders....
This comprehensive volume describes evidence-based strategies for supporting English language learners (ELLs) by promoting meaningful communication an...
Alison L. Bailey, Ed.D, Carolyn A. Maher (Rutgers University, USA.), Louise C. Wilkinson
What do mathematics and science educators need to know about the particular forms and content of academic language used in the STEM disciplines? This book critically synthesizes and comprehensively interprets the current knowledge base on language challenges inherent to learning mathematics and science, with particular attention to the unique issues for English language learners. These key questions are addressed: When and how do students develop mastery of the language registers unique to mathematics and to the sciences? How do teachers use assessment as evidence of student learning for...
What do mathematics and science educators need to know about the particular forms and content of academic language used in the STEM disciplines? Th...
Alison L. Bailey, Ed.D, Carolyn A. Maher (Rutgers University, USA.), Louise C. Wilkinson
What do mathematics and science educators need to know about the particular forms and content of academic language used in the STEM disciplines? This book critically synthesizes and comprehensively interprets the current knowledge base on language challenges inherent to learning mathematics and science, with particular attention to the unique issues for English language learners. These key questions are addressed: When and how do students develop mastery of the language registers unique to mathematics and to the sciences? How do teachers use assessment as evidence of student learning for...
What do mathematics and science educators need to know about the particular forms and content of academic language used in the STEM disciplines? Th...
