Fred Genesee, Kathryn Lindholm-Leary, Bill Saunders

Educating English Language Learners

A Synthesis of Research Evidence

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides a comprehensive summary and analysis of research conducted during the last 20 years on the oral language, literacy, and academic development of English language learners in kindergarten to grade 12 in the U.S.A. The book is divided into 6 chapters: Introduction, Oral Language Development, Cross-linguistic and Cross-Modal Issues in Literacy Development, Instructional Issues in Literacy, Academic Achievement, and Conclusions and Implications. The final chapter provides a summary of cross-cutting issues that emerge from the earlier chapters and recommendations for future research.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Januar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 573g
• ISBN-13: 9780521859752
• ISBN-10: 0521859751
• Artikelnr.: 22762058

Autorenporträt

Fred Genesee has conducted extensive research on second language education, including foreign language immersion programs for majority language students and bilingual education for minority language students. His research on bilingual acquisition focuses on the syntactic and communicative development of bilingual children with typical and impaired patterns of acquisition and addresses issues related to the capacity of the language faculty during the period of primary language development.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Oral language
3. Literacy: crosslinguistic and crossmodal issues
4. Literacy: instructional issues
5. Academic achievement
6. Conclusions and future directions.