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Resources Juli Recommends
for Teachers and Schools Exploring Strategies
to Close the Achievement Gap of English Language Learners
Educating Language Minority Children,
Hakuta and August, editors; National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., 1998.
The entire text is available online. A printed, bound version is also available
at a reasonable cost.
Making
Content Comprehensible for English Language Learners: The SIOP Model by
Echevarria, Vogt, and Short; Allyn and Bacon, 2000. New edition scheduled
for 2004.
Scaffolding
Language, Scaffolding Learning: Teaching Second Language Learners in the
Mainstream Classroom by Pauline Gibbons; Heinemann, 2002.
"Scaffolding Learning"
(online article). Adapted from Strategic
Reading: Guiding Students to Lifelong Literacy by Jeffrey Wilhelm,
Tanya Baker, and Julie Dube (Heinemann, 2001)
Also see these articles about English language acquisition by Kenji
Hakuta, posted at this webpage.
How
should we improve the education of language minority students?
How long does
it take immigrants to learn English? (PDF file)
Is
there a critical period for second language acquisition? (PDF file)
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