Educating Emergent Bilinguals: Policies Programs and Practices for English Language Learners (Language and Literacy Series)

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This comprehensive and insightful book shows how present policies and practices to educate language minority students in the United States ignore an essential characteristictheir emergent bilingualism. In one accessible guide the authors compile the most up-to-date research findings to demonstrate how ignoring childrens bilingualism perpetuates inequities in their schooling. What makes this book truly useful is that it offers a thorough description of alternative practices that would transform our schools and students futures such as building on students home languages and literacy practices in schools as well as incorporating curricular and pedagogical innovations new approaches to parent and community engagement and alternative assessment tools. Providing critical research rich theoretical perspective and meaningful blueprints for effective pedagogy Educating Emergent Bilinguals is essential reading for all teachers of language-minority students as well as principals superintendents and policymakers.