Culture, Language, and Curricular Choices - What Teachers Want to Know About Planning Instruction for English

In this bookthe authors address issues of language diversity and alsogo beyondthese to emphasize the impact of culture on the learning environment.

List of contents

Foreword-Joan Wink
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part 1 The Future of the Schoolhouse
Chapter 1: Examining Components of School Districts with High Expectations for ELs' Academic Success
Ester de Jong, Tuba Yilmaz
Chapter 2: Planning Instruction for ELs: Culture, Language and the Curriculum
Mayra C. Daniel
Chapter 3: Developing Bilingualism and Biliteracy in Content Instruction using a Linguistic
Integrative Perspective
Aida A. Nevárez-La Torre
Part 2: Considerations for Examining Language Development
Chapter 4:Language is a Resource: Revaluing Readers' Transliteracies Through
Miscue Analysis and Retrospective Miscue Analysis (RMA)
Yetta Goodman, Kelly Allen
Chapter 5: Language Development in Early Readers and Writers
Carol Owles
Chapter 6: Exploring English Learners' Languages and Cultures Through Visual Literacy
Mayra C. Daniel
Part 3: Authentic Data Driven Evaluation
Chapter 7: Considerations for Instruction and Assessment of ELs with Special Educational Needs
Barbara E. Marler

About the author

Mayra C. Daniel, professor in the Department of Curriculum & Instruction at Northern Illinois University, is the Coordinator for the Bilingual/English as a Second Language Program for NIU's College of Education.

Summary

In this book the authors address issues of language diversity and also go beyond these to emphasize the impact of culture on the learning environment.

Product details

• Authors: DANIEL, Mayra C. Daniel
• Assisted by: Mayra C. Daniel (Editor), Daniel Mayra C. (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2017
• EAN: 9781475827248
• ISBN: 978-1-4758-2724-8
• No. of pages: 174
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Teaching materials, hand-outs; Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; EDUCATION / Professional Development, EDUCATION / Curricula, EDUCATION / Multicultural Education, teacher training, Teaching staff, Educational strategies & policy, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Curriculum planning & development, Multicultural education