Policy and Practice in Bilingual Education: A Reader Extending the Foundations

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Ofelia García, Colin Baker
Multilingual Matters, Jan 1, 1995 - Education - 280 pages
A collection of pivotal papers from 1986-1993 on bilingualism and bilingual education, grouped in sections on policy and legislation, implementation of bilingual policy in schools, bilingualism in instruction, and using the bilingualism of the school community. Articles conclude with suggested student activities and discussion questions, encouraging students to take on an advocacy-oriented role. The reader can be used alone or with the publisher's Foundations of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism. No index. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
 

Contents

Bilingual Education Politics or Pedagogy?
15
Bilingual Education and AntiRacist Education
63
A SpanishEnglish Dual Language Program in New York City
85
Empowering Minority Students A Framework for Intervention
103
The Canadian Second Language Immersion Program
118
Heritage Language Teaching in Canadian Schools
134
Bilingual Education in Wales
152
Using Bilingualism in Instruction Structuring Classrooms
166
Relating Experience and Text Socially Constituted
190
Donna Christian George Spanos Joann Crandall Carmen SimichDudgeon
216
Cooperative Learning Instructing
231
Creative Education for Bilingual Teachers
237
Recasting Frames Latino Parent Involvement
259
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Colin Baker is Emeritus Professor at Bangor University, UK. He is the author of research publications, books for parents and an encyclopedia, all on the subject of bilingualism, as well as the 5 previous editions of this textbook. He is the former co-editor of the Bilingual Education and Bilingualism books series for Multilingual Matters.

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