Supporting Second-Language Learners
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Online Versions: You can read or download full text versions of the following on-line articles from various sources.
This pathway for bilingual reading teachers links users to research on bilingual reading instruction and bilingual reading practices, instruction program models, and curriculum resources online.
Bilingual Reading Instruction Pathway, ERIC Clearinghouse on Urban Education/Columbia Teachers College for National Clearinghouse for Bilingual Education, 1998
(www.ncbe.gwu.edu/pathways/
reading/cover.htm)
This multimedia document examines the issues related to planning for and responding to young children who are second language learners and/or have other special learning needs. There are links to articles and sources of additional information and a reference list.
Critical Issue: Meeting the Diverse Needs of Young Children, Ginger Rodriguez and Judy Caplan, Pathways to School Improvement, North Central Regional Educational Laboratory, Oak Brook, IL, 1998
(http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/
students/earlycld/ea400.htm)
This series of booklets were based on studies of elementary and middle schools with significant numbers of second-language learners. Selected through a nationwide search, the schools demonstrate effective practices.
Lessons Learned: Educating Students from Diverse Linguistic and Cultural Backgrounds: Language Development
(www.ncbe.gwu.edu/miscpubs/
ncrcdsll/srsd/language.htm),
Curriculum and Instruction
(www.ncbe.gwu/miscpubs/ncrcdsll/
srsd/curriculum.htm),
School Organization
(www.ncbe.gwu/miscpubs/ncrcdsll/
srsd/schoolorg.htm),
Parent Involvement
(www.ncbe.gwu/miscpubs/ncrcdsll/
srsd/parents.htm),
Beverly McLeod, National Center for Research on Cultural Diversity and Second Language Learning, 1995.
This is an updated version of a resource developed in 1989 by a task force of Virginia migrant educators in response to requests from classroom teachers for information about and assistance with their limited-English-proficient (LEP) students. The kit includes recommended teaching strategies, lesson plans, and materials. Most of the strategies promoted are appropriate for all students, not just second-language learners.
Help! They Don't Speak English Starter Kit, for Primary Teachers, Third Edition, Eastern Stream Center on Resources and Training (ESCORT), Region IV Comprehensive Center at AEL, Region XIV Comprehensive Center/Center for Applied Linguistics, 1998.
You can download this resource at (http://www.escort.org/products/helpkit.html). You will need the free plug-in Adobe Acrobat Reader to view this document.
Or, you can obtain a free copy from:
ESCORT-Migrant Education
SUNY College at ONEONTA
304 Bugbee Hall
State St
Oneonta NY 13820-4015
800-451-8058
This report describes numerous strategies for working with parents of second-language learners. It profiles nine exemplary sites with a wide range of parent involvement and family literacy programs. Five are bilingual, including four for Spanish speakers and one for Navajo families, and four serve children and families from several language groups.
Model Strategies in Bilingual Education: Family Literacy and Parent Involvement, Heather McCollum and Alexander W. W. Russo, Principal Investigators, U.S Department of Education, 1993
(http://www.ncbe.gwu.edu/miscpubs/
ed/familylit/index.html
This position statement includes discussion of the challenges in responding to linguistic and cultural diversity and recommendations for working with children, involving families, professional preparation, and programs and practice. English and Spanish versions are available on line and through the NAEYC publications department.
Responding to Linguistics and Cultural Diversity: Recommendations for Effective Early Childhood Education. A Position Statement of the National Association for the Education of Young Children, November 1995
(www.naeyc.org/resources/position _statements/position_statement1.htm)
This guide answers the questions of Latino parents about raising their children to speak, read, and write both English and Spanish. The bilingual text is in two columns—English on one side and Spanish on the other.
Would You like Your Children to Speak English and Spanish?, Dr. Ana Celia Zentella and Hunter College students enrolled in BLPR 390.92 Bilingualism,
www.hunter.cuny.edu/blpr/bilingualism.html
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