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Zusatztext "Language Minority Students in American Schools is a comprehensive! balanced! and timely view of language education in the United States that is appropriately contextualized in the often heated social! cultural! and political climate of U.S. classrooms"--Juliet E. Hart! TESOL Quarterly"Given its clear and informative discourse as well as its breadth and scope! this book should definitely be included on any ESL student's essential reading list."--Fiona Cromarty-Lawtie! TESL-EJ (December 2005)"...I thoroughly enjoyed this book and gained a great deal from Adamson's insights! explanations! and well-crafted arguments. This book will be an excellent core or supplemental textbook for TESL foundation and methods courses for both ESL specialist and content-area teachers. It is also a book I hope school administrators and policy makers will read as this information can help inform better policies and more effective programs for language minority students in American schools."--Wayne E. Wright! Language Policy (2006)"This innovative introductory text provides trainee ESL teachers and teachers of other disciplines with a highly readable and topical introduction to the major issues in language minority student education."--Louisa Willoughby! The LINGUIST LIST (9/16/05)"Intended for pre-service ESL and mainstream teachers who will work with culturally and linguistically diverse learns?[this] book provides readers with an informed survey of second language acquisition theory wrapped in an engaging narrative chronicling the author's experiences working with diverse learning in multilingual settings in the U.S. and abroad....[It] fills a gap in the professional literature by offering a user-friendly introduction to second language theory without compromising scholarly rigor."--Adrian J. Wurr! The Reading Matrix (April 2007)"This book is a considerable contribution to the field of the education of language minority students in the United States."--Na Liu! Language and Education (2008)"Indisputably! the textbook is recommendable for all educators because it is informative and formative in matters of the education of ELLs." -Robert L. Torres! Studies in Second Language Acquisition (2007)! 29: 503-504 Informationen zum Autor H. D. Adamson Zusammenfassung Addresses questions of language education in the US, focusing on how to teach the 3.5 million students who do not speak English as a native language. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents: Preface. A Personal Introduction. First and Second Language Acquisition. Language Teaching. Standard and Vernacular English. Learning in a Second Language. School and Family. Bilingual Education. ...
