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Language is perhaps the most common issue that surfaces in debates over school reform, and plays a vital role in virtually everything we are involved. This edited volume explores linguistic apartheid, or the disappearance of certain languages through cultural genocide by dominant European colonizers...

Bringing unique perspectives from the field, this resource offers multiple perspectives on African American male achievement from top scholars in the field of urban education.

Language as Cultural Practice: Mexicanos en el Norte offers a vivid ethnographic account of language socialization practices within Mexican-background families residing in California and Texas. This account illustrates a variety of cases where language is used by speakers to choose between alternative...

Language Policy in Schools provides school administrators and teachers a practical approach for designing a language policy for their school and for dealing with the language issues that confront schools, particularly those operating in settings of linguistic and cultural diversity. It can be used...

Ein völlig neuartiges Lehrbuch für Fremdsprachen von einem internationalen Bestseller Autoren…Möchten Sie die englische Sprache beherrschen? Mögen Sie Fantasy Romane? Haben Sie keinen Spaß daran, mit langweiligen Lehrbüchern Englisch zu lernen?Sollten Sie eine oder mehrere dieser Fragen mit „Ja"...

Hier kommt ein neuartiges Lehrbuch von einem Bestsellerautoren der New York Times und USA Today …Nach dem großen Erfolg der ersten Ausgabe von Lesend Englisch lernen haben wir uns entschieden einen zweiten Teil für Sie herauszugeben. Der Ausgangstext des zweiten Teils ist gleichzeitig der...

Pronunciation Guide for Second Language Speakers of the English Language (The Clergy) is an interactive manual for second language learners of English Language. Although specifically written for the clergy, it is a rich resource in the quest to learn and master English speech sounds, their...

Cet ouvrage réunit des contributions qui illustrent, d’une part, l’intrication de la didactique analytique (analyse des pratiques discursives en classe de langue et en amont de ces pratiques, l’analyse des pratiques de programmation, en lien avec leurs fondements théoriques) et de la programmation...

The much-awaited second edition! Study abroad has never been so popular. Students are embarking on life-changing adventures, and they need some tried and true advice. The Exchange Student Survival Kit has become the essential guide for young people traveling abroad, helping them better understand...

If you would like your children to experience the benefits of becoming bilingual, but you aren’t sure how to teach them a second language, then Raising a Bilingual Child is the perfect step-by-step guide for you. Raising a Bilingual Child provides parents with information, encouragement,...

Imagined Communities and Educational Possibilities focuses on three main themes: imaged communities expand the range of possible selves, technological advances in the last two decades have had a significant impact on what is possible to imagine, and imagination at even the most personal level is related...

Language in academic settings, also referred to academic language, has gained attention in the field of second language learning owing to new understandings of the complexities of language inherent in learning academic content, and new efforts to assess English learners’ language proficiency in...

The central issue of this volume is how to meet the linguistic and academic needs of the increasing numbers of English learners (ELs). At the center of educational turns is the role of school professionals in this Common Core Standards era. Teacher education programs and professional development,...

This volume brings together the current theoretical interest in reconceptualizing second and foreign language learning from a sociocultural perspective on language and learning, with practical concerns about second and foreign language pedagogy. It presents a set of studies whose focus is on the empirical...