Language Use in the Two-Way Classroom - Lessons from a Spanish-English Bilingual Kindergarten

Based on an extended ethnographic study of a dual language (Spanish-English) Kindergarten, this book critically examines children's linguistic (and non-linguistic) interactions and the ways that teaching design can help or hinder language development.

About the author

Renée DePalma received her PhD in 2003 from the University of Delaware (USA), where she helped to establish La Red Mágica, a community-university collaborative project which aims to promote intercultural relationships between university students and minority children in a nearby urban community center. She is currently a Research Fellow at the University of Vigo, Spain. Her research over the years has focused on equalities and social justice in terms of race, ethnicity, language, sexuality and gender. She is mainly interested in the social construction of marginalization within and beyond schools, ways in which success and failure are co-constructed in institutional settings, and the design of counter-hegemonic institutional contexts and classroom practices.

Summary

Based on an extended ethnographic study of a dual language (Spanish-English) Kindergarten, this book critically examines children's linguistic (and non-linguistic) interactions and the ways that teaching design can help or hinder language development.

Product details

• Authors: Ren?e Depalma, Renee DePalma, Renée DePalma, Ren¿DePalma
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.08.2010
• EAN: 9781847693006
• ISBN: 978-1-84769-300-6
• No. of pages: 212
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 210 mm x 12 mm
• Weight: 281 g
• Series: Bilingual Education & Bilingualism; Bilingual Education and Biling; Bilingual Education & Bilingua; Bilingual Education & Bilingualism
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology