The Multicultural Classroom
Published on 27. January 2000
Book
Paperback/Softback
413 pages
978-0-8013-0511-5 (ISBN)
Description
This sourcebook is essential reading for teachers in multicultural classrooms. Focusing on the needs of language minority students, it presents selections from the works of experienced teachers and researchers such as Cummins, H. D. Brown, Heath, Banks, McGroarty, Scarcella, Chamot, and O?Malley.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Upper Saddle River
United States
Target group
ELT/ESL
Dimensions
Height: 233 mm
Width: 177 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
591 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8013-0511-5 (9780801305115)
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Content
Part I THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS
Chapter 1 Language Minority Students in Multicultural Classrooms
Chapter 2 Language Proficiency, Bilingualism, and Academic Achievement
Chapter 3 A Conceptual Framework for the Integration of Language and Content Instruction
Chapter 4 The cognitive Academic Language Learning Approach: A Bridge to the Mainstream
Chapter 5 Cooperative Learning: The Benefits for Content-Area Teaching
Part II CULTURAL CONSIDERATIONS
Chapter 6 Sociocultural Factors in Teaching Language
Minority Students
Chapter 7 The Stages of Ethnicity
Chapter 8 Sociocultural Contexts of Language Development: Implications for
the Classroom
Chapter 9 Providing Culturally Sensitive Feedback
Part III THE CLASSROOM: INSTRUCTIONAL PRACTICES
AND MATERIALS
Chapter 10 Strategies for Content-Area Teachers
Chapter 11 Adapting materials and Developing Lesson Plans
Chapter 12 Facilitating the Reading Process
Chapter 13 Coaching the Developing Second Language Writer
Chapter 14 Helping Students Write for an Academic Audience
Chapter 15 Conducting Verbal Reviews
Chapter 16 The Physical Environment
Chapter 17 What Are we Really Testing?
Chapter 18 Peer Teachers: The Neglected Resource
Part IV READINGS IN SPECIFIC CONTENT AREAS
Chapter 19 Social Studies Instruction
Chapter 20 Teaching Literature to Language Minority Students
Chapter 21 Discovery Science and Language Development
Chapter 22 Integrating Mathematics and Language Learning
Chapter 23 Multicultural Art Projects
Chapter 24 Using Low Organized Games in Multicultural Physical Education
Chapter 25 Music as Multicultural Education
Chapter 26 Serving Language Minority Students in Business Education
References
Index
Chapter 1 Language Minority Students in Multicultural Classrooms
Chapter 2 Language Proficiency, Bilingualism, and Academic Achievement
Chapter 3 A Conceptual Framework for the Integration of Language and Content Instruction
Chapter 4 The cognitive Academic Language Learning Approach: A Bridge to the Mainstream
Chapter 5 Cooperative Learning: The Benefits for Content-Area Teaching
Part II CULTURAL CONSIDERATIONS
Chapter 6 Sociocultural Factors in Teaching Language
Minority Students
Chapter 7 The Stages of Ethnicity
Chapter 8 Sociocultural Contexts of Language Development: Implications for
the Classroom
Chapter 9 Providing Culturally Sensitive Feedback
Part III THE CLASSROOM: INSTRUCTIONAL PRACTICES
AND MATERIALS
Chapter 10 Strategies for Content-Area Teachers
Chapter 11 Adapting materials and Developing Lesson Plans
Chapter 12 Facilitating the Reading Process
Chapter 13 Coaching the Developing Second Language Writer
Chapter 14 Helping Students Write for an Academic Audience
Chapter 15 Conducting Verbal Reviews
Chapter 16 The Physical Environment
Chapter 17 What Are we Really Testing?
Chapter 18 Peer Teachers: The Neglected Resource
Part IV READINGS IN SPECIFIC CONTENT AREAS
Chapter 19 Social Studies Instruction
Chapter 20 Teaching Literature to Language Minority Students
Chapter 21 Discovery Science and Language Development
Chapter 22 Integrating Mathematics and Language Learning
Chapter 23 Multicultural Art Projects
Chapter 24 Using Low Organized Games in Multicultural Physical Education
Chapter 25 Music as Multicultural Education
Chapter 26 Serving Language Minority Students in Business Education
References
Index