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Joanna Rokita-Jaskow – Multilingual Matters, 2025
This book synthesises research on very early language learning in pre-primary organised instruction settings such as kindergarten, nursery or afternoon classes. Using a framework of ecological development, it investigates the nested systems in which very young learners operate, the other agents involved in each of these systems and the influence…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Kindergarten, Second Language Learning, Individual Characteristics
Magaly Lavadenz; Elvira G. Armas – Multilingual Matters, 2024
This book presents a validated observation instrument to support and further develop the pedagogic expertise of teachers of English Learners in US schools. Based on sociocultural and second language teaching and learning theories, the Observation Protocol for Academic Literacies (OPAL) has a variety of uses across teacher preparation programs,…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Heidt, Esther Bettney – Teachers College Record, 2023
Background: In recent years, scholars and educators have criticized exclusionary language ideologies and policies within international schools. International schools often emphasize proficiency in English as a language of power instead of valuing students' and teachers' dynamic multilingual practices. Focus of Study: Although oppressive language…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, International Schools, Language Usage, Equal Education
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Wen, Yun, Ed.; Wu, Yi-ju, Ed.; Qi, Grace, Ed.; Guo, Siao-Cing, Ed.; Spector, J. Michael, Ed.; Chelliah, Shobhana, Ed.; Kinshuk, Ed.; Lan, Yu-Ju, Ed. – Lecture Notes in Educational Technology, 2021
This book uncovers the important issues in language learning and teaching in the intelligent, digital era. "Social connectivity" is a contemporary style of learning and living. By engaging in the connectivity of physical and digital worlds, how essential parts of language learning and teaching can be achieved? How can the advanced…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, Information Technology
Valdes, Guadalupe; Capitelli, Sarah; Alvarez, Laura – Teachers College Press, 2010
This timely and incisive book examines the ways in which English language proficiencies develop in newly arrived immigrant students. Beginning by describing the challenges faced by children who currently attend segregated schools in many parts of the country, the authors offer a detailed account of the developing English language proficiencies of…
Descriptors: Intervention, Second Language Learning, Immigrants, English (Second Language)
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Cullen, Joy L.; Haworth, Penelope Anne; Simmons, Heather; Schimanski, Liz; McGarva, Pam; Kennedy, Eileen – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2009
This article discusses six teaching strategies identified by teacher-researchers as supporting their goal to improve learning and teaching for all children in the intercultural setting of a kindergarten in "Aotearoa" New Zealand. As a Centre of Innovation, the kindergarten received government funding for a 3-year action research project…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Action Research, Early Childhood Education, Bilingual Education
Pianta, Robert C., Ed.; Cox, Martha J., Ed.; Snow, Kyle L., Ed. – Brookes Publishing Company, 2007
The follow-up to Pianta & Cox's groundbreaking "The Transition to Kindergarten," this book updates readers on what has happened in early childhood education in the past seven years; clarifies influential changes in demographics, policies, and practices; and describes promising early education programs and policies. More than 30 highly respected…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Early Childhood Education, Kindergarten, Educational Policy