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Teaching Young Children a Second Language
About this book
This volume addresses a gamut of questions of interest to teachers of young second language learners. Why do immigrant children leave their home countries, and what are their journeys to the United States like? How do young children adjust to the new culture? What sort of dynamic prevails in immigrant families? What are young immigrants' schooling experiences like? What are language learning processes like in young children? The first part of the book contains an overview of recent ethnographic, sociological, and psycholinguistic research concerned with answering these questions. The second half of the volume focuses on classroom practice. Gordon provides an extensive overview of activities that have been proven to be effective with young language learners. Practical recommendations contained in these pages flow directly from the classroom. Gordon describes innovative second language lessons developed and implemented by ESL teachers who work with language learners enrolled in primary grades. The book places special emphasis on those instructional strategies that stir young language learners' interest while stimulating their linguistic and cognitive development.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Series Foreword by Doris Pronin Fromberg and Leslie R. Williams
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Language Minority Children in the United States
- 2. Second Language Policies and the Language Rights of Language Minority Children
- 3. Children as Language Learners
- 4. Teaching Emergent Second Language Speakers
- 5. Developing Literacy Skills of Young Language Learners
- 6. Teaching Grammar in the Primary Level ESL Classroom
- 7. Content-Based Second Language Teaching in Primary Grades
- 8. Multicultural Second Language Curricula
- 9. Issues in ESL Instruction
- 10. Using Technology with Young English Language Learners
- 11. Assessment of Young English Language Learners
- Index