Joinfostering: Adapting Teaching Strategies for the Multilingual Classroom

By Chris Faltis

Joinfostering : Adapting Teaching Strategies for the Multilingual Classrooms This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0675213266
• ISBN13: 9780675213264
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Pearson College Div
• Length: 179 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.5" x 7.5"

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Joinfostering

This book was written with two audiences in mind: (1) education majors who are in the process of becoming classroom teachers, and (2) established teachers who are interested in changing the way they teach to accomodate students in their classrooms who are adding English to their already developed native language(s). As the number of students who are learning English as a second language grows in substantial proportions, regular classroom teachers must become better prepared to help these students join in all aspects of classroom and school life. This book presents many teaching and learning strategies found in exemplary bilingual education and English-as-a-second-language (ESL) programs throughout the nation. In other words, the strategies presented in this book are derived largely from advances that have been made in bilingual education and ESL instruction. It is important to understand that exemplary teaching in a multilingual classroom differs in significant ways from exemplary teaching in a clasroom where all the students are native speakers of the same language. When students are learning the language of instruction in addition to the content of instruction, teaching them as if they are native speakers is ineffective and unacceptable. Teachers must learn to adapt teaching to ensure that these students have access to and participate in all aspects of classroom learning. Anything less means we are denying these students the benefits of classroom learning experiences. --- excerpt from book's Preface