Closing the Achievement Gap
How to Reach Limited-Formal-Schooling and Long-Term English Learners
Published on 23. January 2002
Book
Paperback/Softback
176 pages
978-0-325-00273-6 (ISBN)
Description
Struggling older English learners pose a real challenge for educators. Some of these students are new arrivals with limited or interrupted schooling.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Portsmouth
United States
Publishing group
Heinemann USA
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 151 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
248 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-325-00273-6 (9780325002736)
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Yvonne S. Freeman is the coauthor or coeditor (with David E. Freeman) of 11 Heinemann books, including:
- ESL Teaching: Revised Edition (2016)
- Essential Linguistics, 2d ed. (2014)
- Between Worlds: Access to Second Language Acquisition, 3d ed. (2011)
- La enseñanza de la lectura y la escritura en español y en inglés en clases bilingües y de doble inmersión, segunda edición revisada ed. (2009)
- Academic Language for English Language Learners and Struggling Readers (2009)
- Diverse Learners in the Mainstream Classroom (2008)
- Teaching Reading and Writing in Spanish and English in Bilingual and Dual Language Classrooms, 2d ed. (2006)
- Dual Language Essentials for Teachers and Administrators (2005)
- Closing the Achievement Gap (2002)
- Teaching Reading in Multilingual Classrooms (2000)
- ESL/EFL Teaching (1998)
Yvonne is a professor emerita at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley.
Yvonne and David Freeman are Heinemann Professional Development Providers.