Educating Emergent Bilinguals : Policies, Programs, and Practices for English Learners

The authors have updated their bestseller to reflect recent shifts in policies, programs, and practices due to globalization and the changing economy; demographic trends; and new research on EL pedagogy. A totally new chapter highlights multimedia and multimodal instructional possibilities for engaging EL students.

This Second Edition is essential reading for all teachers of language-minority students, as well as principals, superintendents, and policymakers.

Book Features:

• Uses the most up-to-date research findings to demonstrate how ignoring children's bilingualism perpetuates inequities in their schooling.
• Points out the problems with current policies and practices and proposes more effective alternative methods.
• Contrasts the common view of bilingualism as either subtractive or additive with more current understandings of individual bilingualism in translanguaging theories.
• Highlights how multimodalities form part of students' communicative repertoire and shows teachers how they can leverage this to engage students.