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• specific strategies for building community support for the program
• guidance for choosing a program model and planning curriculum across grade levels
• best-practice teaching strategies that promote content learning and language development
• guidelines for assessment...

As an exchange student, you receive the opportunity to experience another culture from the inside out. You live with a host family, you become part of the local community, and you learn the language. Even so, an exchange year is not one long holiday. It can be tough, and it may take time to adjust to the new culture and find new friends. In The Exchange Student Guidebook, author Olav Schewe presents a practical handbook to prepare you for life as an exchange student and help you tackle common challenges. Schewe considers - understanding the basics of student exchange; - evaluating reasons...

As an exchange student, you receive the opportunity to experience another culture from the inside out. You live with a host family, you become part of the local community, and you learn the language. Even so, an exchange year is not one long holiday. It can be tough, and it may take time to adjust to the new culture and find new friends. In The Exchange Student Guidebook, author Olav Schewe presents a practical handbook to prepare you for life as an exchange student and help you tackle common challenges. Schewe considers - understanding the basics of student exchange; - evaluating reasons...

Innovatively bridging the fields of youth studies and language planning and policy, this book takes a close, nuanced look at indigenous youth bi/multilingualism across diverse cultural and linguistic settings, drawing out comparisons, contrasts, and implications for language planning and policy. Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars with longstanding ties to language planning efforts in diverse indigenous communities examine language policy and planning as de facto and de jure as covert and overt, bottom-up and top-down. This approach illuminates crosscutting themes of language identity...

Bridging the fields of youth studies and language planning and policy, this book takes a close, nuanced look at Indigenous youth bi/multilingualism across diverse cultural and linguistic settings, drawing out comparisons, contrasts, and important implications for language planning and policy and for projects designed to curtail language loss. Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars with longstanding ties to language planning efforts in diverse Indigenous communities examine language policy and planning as de facto and de jure - as covert and overt, bottom-up and top-down. This...