基本説明
This book is concerned with the primary school education of bilingual children in Britain.
Full Description
The teaching of English as a Second Language to minority school children has led to much educational and political debate. This book is concerned with the primary school education of such children. The papers consider how to help bilingual children achieve their cognitive and linguistic potential and how to improve language awareness amongst teachers. Areas covered include: - strategies for supporting bilingual children in the classroom - the support teacher and classroom teacher relationship - development of children's bilingualism at home and in school - classroom-based research on spoken and written discourse - developments in the assessment of bilingual children - bilingual children and the National Curriculum - monitoring equality in the classroom - helping children settle down in a new language environment The papers reflect the views of experienced applied linguists and practitioners, as well as advisers and teacher-trainers engaged in curriculum development and training.
Contents
Investigating children's discourse in the primary classroom, Nanette Godfrey and Silvia Skinner; story as vehicle - the making of a kit, Edie Garvie; the assessment of bilingual children, Ann Robson; towards equality in the classroom, Farzana Turner and Ola Francombe; towards bilingualism in the primary school - the Scottish perspective, Ann Hindle; the Welsh perspective on working with bilingual children in the primary school, William H. Raybould; issues in the language education of bilingual children, Mahendra K. Verma, et al; promoting young ESL children's written language development, Lindy Bates; old sounds and new sounds - bilingual learning ESL, Mahendra K. Verma and Sally Firth; bilingual children and their assessment through mother tongue, Jean Mills; oracy issues in ESL teaching in Key stage 2, Mary Rose Peate; the bilingual child - learning and teaching in multicultural contexts, Mahendra K. Verma and Sally Firth.
