EDUCATING SECOND LANGUAGE CHILDREN

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Publisher: None
Publish Date: 2006-09-01
Features: Educating Second Language Children is a collection of articles from fourteen elementary education experts whose spouse an integrative approach to second language education, one that goes beyond language teaching methodology to cover a widerange of issues affecting the academic and social success of language minority children. The volume deals not only with second language development but with the development of the whole child; rather than focusing on language instruction, it addresses the entire curriculum; and instead of restricting itself to classroom learning, it examines the role of the school, family and community.