Advocating for English Learners - Selected Essays

Informationen zum Autor James Crawford is president of the Institute for Language and Education Policy (www.elladvocates.org), a nonprofit research and advocacy organization. His recent books include English Learners in American Classrooms: 101 Questions, 101 Answers (coauthored with Stephen Krashen); At War with Diversity: US Language Policy in an Age of Anxiety; and Educating English Learners: Language Diversity in the Classroom (5th ed). Previously, he served as Washington editor of Education Week and executive director of the National Association for Bilingual Education. Klappentext This book addresses the policy and politics of educating English language learners in the US. It covers demographic change and its educational implications, responses to language diversity, public controversies over bilingual education, high-stakes testing and its impact on English language learners and the uncertain status of language rights. Zusammenfassung This book addresses the policy and politics of educating English language learners in the US. It covers demographic change and its educational implications! responses to language diversity! public controversies over bilingual education! high-stakes testing and its impact on English language learners and the uncertain status of language rights.

Product details

• Authors: James Crawford
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.04.2008
• EAN: 9781847690722
• ISBN: 978-1-84769-072-2
• No. of pages: 160
• Series: Bilingual Education & Bilingualism; Bilingual Education & Bilingua; Bilingual Education & Bilingua; Bilingual Education & Bilingualism
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation; Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories