Methods of Teaching a Modern Language (14-480)

Contents: Scaffolding language and learning -- Classroom talk: creating contexts for language learning -- Collaborative group work and second language learning -- From speaking to writing in the content classroom -- Learning to write in a second language and culture -- Reading in a second language and culture: barriers and bridges -- Listening: an active and thinking process -- Developing an integrated curriculum: learning language, learning through language, and learning about language.

This collection examines the personal narratives of a select group of educators who attained biliteracy at a young age, and in the era before bilingual education. Their autobiographical accounts celebrate and make visible a linguistic potential that has been largely ignored in schools and underscores the emotional ties that Latinos have to Spanish.--[book cover]

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