[lg policy] ] New book by Arias and Faltis, IMPLEMENTING EDUCATIONAL LANGUAGE POLICY IN ARIZONA

[Harold Schiffman]

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IMPLEMENTING EDUCATIONAL LANGUAGE POLICY IN ARIZONA

Legal, Historical and Current Practices in SEI

Edited by M. Beatriz Arias (Arizona State University) and Christian J
Faltis (University of California, Davis)



Description

This book brings together scholars, researchers, and educators to
present a critical examination of Arizona’s restrictive language
policies as they influence teacher preparation and practice. The
Structured English Immersion model prescribes the complete segregation
of English learners for 4 hours a day from English speakers and
academic content for a minimum of one year.



Contents

Foreword: Terrence Wiley

Editors’ Introduction: M. Beatriz Arias and Christian J. Faltis



Section I. Language Policy in Arizona

1. Language Policy and Teacher Preparation: The Implications of a
Restrictive Language Policy on Teacher Preparation: Beatriz Arias

2. Scientific-based Reform in Arizona: Whose Evidence Counts for
Applying the Castañeda test to Structured English Immersion? Christian
Faltis and Beatriz Arias

3. SLA Research and Arizona’s Structured English Immersion Policies:
Michael Long and Douglas Adamson



Section II. Implementing SEI in Arizona

4. Everything on its Head: How Arizona’s Structured English Immersion
Policy Re-invents Theory and Practice: Mary Carol Combs

5. Teachers’ Sheltered English Immersion Views and Practices: Wayne
Wright and Ko-Yin Sung

6. Review of “Research Summary and Bibliography for Structured English
Immersion Programs” of the Arizona English Language Learners Task
Force: Stephen Krashen, Jeff MacSwan and Kellie Rolstad



Section III. Arizona Teacher Preparation for SEI

7. “They’re Just Confused”: SEI as Policy into Practice: Sarah Moore

8. Implementing Structured English Immersion in Teacher Preparation in
Arizona: Nancy Murri, Amy Markos and Alexandria Estrella

9. The Politics of Preservice Teachers: Kate Olson



Author Information



M. Beatriz Arias is an Associate Professor of English Education in the
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Arizona State University. She
has edited several books and published scholarly articles on Latino
students and educational policy, and has focused her research on
equity issues for English Learners and Latino students and teachers.
She has served as a Court Appointed Monitor for a Federal Court Judge
in San Jose California; and in Chicago, Denver and Los Angeles school
desegregation cases, she has participated as a Court Appointed expert.



Christian Faltis is the Dolly and David Fiddyment Chair in Teacher
Education and Professor of Language, Literacy and Culture in the
School of Education at University of California, Davis. He has
authored numerous books and scholarly writing on bilingual education
and Latino students. His most recent book is Education, immigrant
students, refugee students, and English learners (2010, with Guadalupe
Valdés). He is Editor of Teacher Education Quarterly, and Editor of
Review of Research in Education, Vol. 37.



Hbk ISBN 9781847697455 £79.95 / US$129.95 / CAN$129.95 / €99.95

Pbk ISBN 9781847697448 £24.95 / US$39.95 / CAN$39.95 / €29.95



Size(Size): 210 x 148 (A5) 224pp

Pub Date: 15/05/2012



Level: Postgraduate Research / Professional

Cat: 15, 35, 50

Territory: World

Subject (BIC): JNF Educational Strategy + Policy CFDM Bilingualism and
Multilingualism






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