Estimado lector: Agradezco en todo lo que vale su presencia en este mi humilde proyecto, agradeciéndole de antemano su lectura. ¡Es para mí un honor! Realizo el presente, dándole a conocer algunas reflexiones de la vida cotidiana, estados de ánimo propios o poniéndome en zapatos ajenos; busco en el también, invitar a pensar realistamente, darse cuenta de lo propio, o hasta sugiriendo a través de mi punto de vista. Considerando que hay maneras diferentes de manifestarse, no precisamente a través de una manera ofensiva. Son en mucho, mi más puro sentir. Lo hago de manera completamente lirica, esperando su consideración. Ofelia García

The book is designed as a comprehensive introduction to bilingual education for instructors, researchers and students and a companion to "Foundations of Bilingual Educationa nd Bilingualism". It will fulfil the needs of teacher education and the preparation and professional development of bilingual teachers. Bilingual education at classroom, school and community levels are explored from a contemporary and international perspective.The readings are divided into four sections:Section 1: Varieties of Bilingual EducationSection 2: History, Policy and Politics of Bilingual EducationSection 3: Languages and Literacies in Bilingual EducationSection 4: Issues in Teaching, Learning and Assessment in Bilingual EducationFollowing each of the nineteen readings, there are questions and activities to create an interactive text for instructors and students. Such questions and activities will engage the reader in reflection, deepening understandings and critical appreciation of bilingual education policies, politics and practices.

Product Description: This short volume provides a comprehensive and synoptic view of Joshua A. Fishman's contributions to international sociolinguistics from 1949 to the present. Readers will find in this volume the essential understandings of Fishmanian sociolinguistics in two short essays that integrate his life's work...read more

Product Description: This book brings together visions and realities of multilingual schools throughout the world in order to examine the pedagogical, socioeducational, and sociopolitical issues that impact on their development and success. The chapters describe and analyze pedagogical, instructional, and policy efforts to develop multilingualism through school with different targeted populations -- immigrant students, indigenous peoples, traditional minorities, majorities, and multiethnic/multilingual groups...read more

This book will be of special interest to the general reader concerned with the issue of language in the United States, as well as the language specialist and sociolinguistic. It has been written to inform those wishing to learn more about the role that languages other than English have had, and continue to have, in the life of the most important United States city, New York. At the same time this volume makes an important contribution to the scholarly literature on urban multilingualism and the sociology of language. The book contains chapters on languages of ethnolinguistic groups who arrived early in New York and which have been somewhat silenced (Irish, German, Yiddish), the languages of groups who made early contributions and continue to be heard in the city (Italian, Greek, Spanish, Hebrew), and languages which are acquiring an important voice in the city today (Chinese, Indian languages, English creoles, Haitian Creole).

Product Description: This book brings together some of the most important and influential recent articles on policy and practices in bilingual education around the world, with particular emphasis on the United States. It complements and extends Foundations of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism by Colin Baker...read more

Product Description: This book brings together some of the most important and influential recent articles on policy and practices in bilingual education around the world, with particular emphasis on the United States. It complements and extends Foundations of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism by Colin Baker...read more

Product Description: Book by Byrnes, Heidi, NORTHEAST CONFERENCE ON THE TEACHING OF, Renjilian-Burgy, Joy, Garcia, Ofelia