[lg policy] book notice: Language Use in the Two-Way Classroom: DePalma

Harold Schiffman hfsclpp at GMAIL.COM
Thu Aug 19 14:32:34 UTC 2010


Language Use in the Two-Way Classroom: DePalma


Title: Language Use in the Two-Way Classroom
Subtitle: Lessons from a Spanish-English Bilingual Kindergarten
Series Title: Bilingual Education and Bilingualism
Published: 2010
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
                http://www.multilingual-matters.com/

Book URL: http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?isb=9781847693006

Author: Renee DePalma
Hardback: ISBN: 9781847693013 Pages: 216 Price: U.S. $ 119.95
Hardback: ISBN: 9781847693013 Pages: 216 Price: U.K. £ 79.95
Paperback: ISBN: 9781847693006 Pages: 216 Price: U.K. £ 24.95
Paperback: ISBN: 9781847693006 Pages: 216 Price: U.S. $ 39.95
Abstract:

Based on an extended ethnographic study of a dual language
(Spanish-English) Kindergarten, this book takes a critical look at
children's linguistic (and non-linguistic) interactions and the ways that
teaching design can help or hinder language development. With a focus on
official "Spanish time", it explores the particular challenges of
supporting the minority language use as well as the teacher's strategies
for doing so. In bilingual classrooms, teachers' goals include bilingualism
as well as academic achievement for all. The children may share these
interests, but have their own agendas as well. This book explores the
linguistic and social interactions that may help, or hinder, these multiple
and sometimes conflicting agendas. How can teachers design educational
practice that takes into consideration broader forces of language hegemony
as well as children's immediate interests?

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                            Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)
                            Spanish (spa)

Written In: English (eng )

See this book announcement on our website:
http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=49866

http://linguistlist.org/issues/21/21-3314.html

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