books by Multilingual Matters     books:       Advocating for English Learners: Selected Essays (Bilingual Education & Bilingualism) James Crawford Multilingual Matters, 2008 A collection of 18 essays addressing the policy and politics of educating English language learners. Subjects include demographic change and its educational implications, American responses to language diversity, public controversies over bilingual education, high-stakes testing and its impact on English language learners, and the precarious status of language rights in the USA.             Policy and Practices in Bilingual Education: A Reader Extending the Foundations (Bilingual Education and ... Ofelia Garcia Multilingual Matters, 1995 This reader contains a selection of influential recent articles on policy and practices in bilingual education around the world, with an emphasis on the US. The book can be used as a comprehensive introduction for instructors, researchers and students, and as an interactive text for students. After each article there is a set of student questions and activities designed to make the reading relevant, widen understanding of the topic and stimulate ...             Learning English At School (Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 20) Kelleen Toohey Multilingual Matters, 2000 This text considers the application of sociocultural theory to understanding how minority language background children learn English in the context of their classrooms. Based on a longitudinal ethnography, it is suggested that understanding the pivotal role of social interaction in learning implies new perspectives both for SLA research and for effective instructional practice.             Spanish Speakers in the USA (MM Textbooks) Janet Fuller Multilingual Matters, 2013 This text presents an interdisciplinary perspective on Spanish speakers in the US, looking at how language and culture are intertwined. It explores attitudes about Spanish and its speakers; how Spanish and English are used in a variety of US contexts; how Spanish has changed through its contact with English and the education of Latin@s in the U.S. school system.             Growing up with Three Languages: Birth to Eleven (Parents' and Teachers' Guides) Xiao-lei Wang Multilingual Matters, 2008 This book is for parents who live in a foreign country and intend to raise their children in their own heritage language(s). It offers helpful suggestions for this challenging situation and provides useful strategies in the daily interactions between parents and children.             Sociocultural Theory in Second Language Education: An Introduction through Narratives (MM Textbooks) Merrill Swain, Penny Kinnear, ... Multilingual Matters, 2010 In this accessible introduction to Vygotskyian sociocultural theory, narratives illuminate key concepts of the theory. Intended for graduate and undergraduate audiences, this textbook includes controversies in the field, questions for collaborative discussion and provides references to important work in the literature of second language teaching, learning and research.             Sociolinguistics and Language Education (New Perspectives on Language and Education) Multilingual Matters, 2010 This book provides an up-to-date overview of sociolinguistics, including topics of nationalism and popular culture, style and identity, creole languages, critical language awareness, multimodal literacies, classroom discourse, ideologies and power, across language education contexts ranging from the teaching of English as an international language to Indigenous language revitalization.             Understanding Deaf Culture: In Search of Deafhood Paddy Ladd Multilingual Matters, 2003 This text presents a "Traveller's Guide" to deaf culture, starting from the premise that deaf cultures have an important contribution to make to other academic disciplines, and human lives in general. Within and outside deaf communities, there is a need for an account of the new concept of deaf culture, which enables readers to assess its place alongside work on other minority cultures and multilingual discourses. The book aims to assess the ...             Interpretation: Techniques and Exercises (Professional Interpreting in the Real World) James Nolan Multilingual Matters, 2012 Now in its second edition, this book provides a structured syllabus and an overview of interpretation accompanied by exercises in the main aspects of the art. It can serve as a practical guide for interpreters and as a complement to interpreter training programs, in the classroom and online, particularly for students preparing for interpreting in international governmental and business settings. This expanded second edition includes additional ...             Foundations of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism Colin Baker Multilingual Matters, 2011 The fifth edition of this bestselling book provides a comprehensive introduction to bilingualism and bilingual education. In a compact and clear style, its 19 chapters cover all the crucial issues in bilingualism at individual, group and national levels.             The Meaning Makers: Learning to Talk and Talking to Learn (New Perspectives on Language and Education) ... Gordon Wells Multilingual Matters, 1000             Language-in-education Policies: The Discursive Construction of Intercultural Relations (Multilingual Matters) Anthony J. Liddicoat Multilingual Matters, 2013 This book studies how language-in-education policies for additional language learning discursively construct ideologies of the relationships between languages and their speakers. It presents a critical analysis of policy documents from different contexts through a series of in-depth case studies that show how ideologies are articulated and developed.             Third or Additional Language Acquisition (Second Language Acquisition) [Paperback] [2007] Gessica De Angelis Gessica De Angelis Multilingual Matters, 1000             Language, Power and Pedagogy: Bilingual Children in the Crossfire (Bilingual Education and Bilingualism) Jim Cummins Multilingual Matters, 2000 As linguistic diversity increases in countries around the world, policy-makers and educators are faced with complex and conflictual issues regarding appropriate ways of educating a multilingual school population. This volume reviews the research and theory relating to instruction and assessment of bilingual pupils, focusing not only on issues of language learning and teaching but also the ways in which power relations in the wider society affect ...             Revitalising Indigenous Languages: How to Recreate a Lost Generation (Linguistic Diversity and Language ... Marja-Liisa Olthuis, Suvi Kivel, ... Multilingual Matters, 2013 This book offers a language revitalisation method that can be used with Indigenous and minority languages, especially in cases where the native language has been lost among people of a working age. It gives practical examples and a theoretical frame of reference for how to plan, organise and implement an intensive language programme.             Motivation, Language Identity and the L2 Self (Second Language Acquisition) Multilingual Matters, 2009 With contributions by leading European, North American and Asian scholars, this volume offers a comprehensive anthology of conceptual and empirical papers describing the latest developments in L2 motivation research that involves the reframing of motivation in the context of contemporary notions of self and identity.             A Practical Guide for Translators (Topics in Translation) Geoffrey Samuelsson-Brown Multilingual Matters, 2010 Latest edition of the successful best-seller that views commercial translation from the translator’s and customer’s viewpoints.             Language Curriculum Design and Socialisation Peter Mickan Multilingual Matters, 2012 This book fills a gap in language education through the application of social theory to curriculum design. It describes an integrated theoretical framework for curriculum design and presents examples of text-based curriculum. As such, it will provide teachers, teacher educators and curriculum planners with a curriculum model for teaching children and adults in different contexts from preschool to adult education as well as serving as a practical ...             Bilingual Community Education and Multilingualism: Beyond Heritage Languages in a Global City (Bilingual ... Ofelia García Multilingual Matters, 2012 This book explores bilingual community education, specifically the educational spaces shaped and organized by American ethnolinguistic communities for their children in the multilingual city of New York. Employing a rich variety of case studies, this volume demonstrates how these groups' efforts go beyond what has been called 'heritage language education' to focus on the construction of bilingual American diasporic communities.             Integrating Multilingual Students into College Classrooms: Practical Advice for Faculty Johnnie Johnson Hafernik, Fredel M. Wiant Multilingual Matters, 2012 This book is a practical, informative, and concise guide for college and university faculty across all disciplines who are dealing with today’s diverse student body: an increasingly ethnically, culturally, and linguistically diverse group. This book helps staff to understand multilingual students and offers advice on how to help them to succeed in the academy.              search for books acquisition, advocating, bilingualism, classrooms, construction, curriculum, discursive, foundations, generation, indigenous, integrating, intercultural, interpretation, interpreting, introduction, language-in-education, linguistic, motivation, multilingual, multilingualism, perspectives, professional, revitalising, socialisation, sociocultural, sociolinguistics, techniques, translation, translators, understanding books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen book: Candle Making Secrets: Insider Tips and Advice on How to Make Perfect ... home  impressum - about us