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Record Nr.

UNINA9910970980403321

Titolo

Educating language-minority children / / Diane August and Kenji Hakuta, editors ; Committee on Developing a Research Agenda on the Education of Limited-English-Proficient and Bilingual Students, Board on Children, Youth, and Families, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council, Institute of Medicine

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : National Academy Press, 1998

ISBN

9786612082238

9780309174275

0309174279

9781282082236

128208223X

9780309517621

0309517621

9780585025322

0585025320

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (128 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

AugustDiane

HakutaKenji

Disciplina

370.117/5/0973

Soggetti

Linguistic minorities - Education - United States - Evaluation

Education, Bilingual - United States - Evaluation

English language - Study and teaching - United States - Evaluation

Second language acquisition

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 91-111).

Nota di contenuto

Overview. Purpose and scope of the report. Terminology. Background. Organization of the report -- Bilingualism and second-language learning. Findings. Implications -- Cognitive aspects of school learning : literacy development and content learning. Findings. Implications -- The social context of school learning. Findings. Implications -- Student assessment. Findings. Implications -- Program evaluation. Findings.



Implications -- Studies of school and classroom effectiveness. Findings. Implications.

Sommario/riassunto

In the past 30 years, a large and growing number of students in U.S. schools have come from homes in which the language background is other than English. These students present unique challenges for America's education system. Based on Improving Schooling for Language-Minority Children , a comprehensive study published in 1997, this book summarizes for teachers and education policymakers what has been learned over the past three decades about educating such students. It discusses a broad range of educational issues: how students learn a second language; how reading and writing skills develop in the first and second languages; how information on specific subjects (for example, biology) is stored and learned and the implications for second-language learners; how social and motivational factors affect learning for English-language learners; how the English proficiency and subject matter knowledge of English-language learners are assessed; and what is known about the attributes of effective schools and classrooms that serve English-language learners.