Navigate the current research on promoting success among students who speak little or no English and discover specific recommendations for developing effective policies and programs!

Navigate the current research on promoting success among students who speak little or no English and discover specific recommendations for developing effective policies and programs!

Explores the research on promoting academic success among language-minority students.

A reference for pre-service and inservice classroom teachers who want to develop and maintain literacy skills and abilities of their students as well as establish and maintain classroom climates that promote and nurture literacy.

Provides 120 easy-to-follow strategies that examines different aspects of teaching ELL secondary students from building background knowledge to assessing learning. Explores methods of presenting basic information about types of tests, demonstrates test-taking skills, and discusses the use of accommodations. Each chapter contains a summary and discussion questions.

Demographic predictions are that students with close connections to their bilingual/bicultural heritages (now labeled “language minority students” by the federal government) will be very large in number in the near future, becoming the majority in many states over the next three decades. The authors feel it is the responsibility of all educators, not just specialists, to prepare themselves to work with language minority students. This time-tested classic text (not an edited volume) integrates theory and practice and provides comprehensive coverage of bilingual and ESL issues. The text integrates the fields of ESL, bilingual, and multicultural education and provides rich examples of effective practices and their underlying research knowledge base and provides an extremely clear and balanced overview of research on teaching in multilingual and multicultural contexts