Becoming biliterate : a study of two-way bilingual immersion education / / Bertha Perez

• Autore: Perez Bertha <1945-, >
• Pubblicazione: Mahwah, N.J. : , : L. Erlbaum Associates, , 2004
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (259 p.)
• Disciplina: 370.117/09764/351
• Soggetto topico: Mexican American children - Education - Texas - San Antonio; Education, Bilingual - Texas - San Antonio; Immersion method (Language teaching) - Texas - San Antonio
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-217) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Language and Literacy Education of Mexican-Origin and Mexican American Children; 2 The Community, School Context, and Students; 3 Leadership and Parents; 4 Oral Language Practices; 5 Developing Literacy; 6 Academic Biliteracy; 7 Testing Pressures and Student Outcomes; 8 Teachers' Role and Impact; 9 Politics, Policy, and Theory; Appendix; References; Author Index; Subject Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This book describes the development process and dynamics of change in the course of implementing a two-way bilingual immersion education program in two school communities. The focus is on the language and literacy learning of elementary-school students and on how it is influenced by parents, teachers, and policymakers. Pérez provides rich, highly detailed descriptions, both quantitative and qualitative, of the change process at the two schools involved, including student language and achievement data for five years of program implementation that were used to test the basic two-way bilingual th
• Titolo autorizzato: Becoming biliterate
• ISBN: 1-135-62084-9; 1-135-62085-7; 1-283-24119-6; 9786613241191; 1-4106-0933-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910816740603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II