Educating Emergent Bilinguals

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Educating Emergent Bilinguals is written by Ofelia García and published by Teachers College Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0807751138 (ISBN 10) and 9780807751138 (ISBN 13).

This comprehensive and insightful book shows how present educational policies and practices to educate language minority students in the United States ignore an essential characteristictheir emergent bilingualism. Expanding on a popular report supported by the Campaign for Educational Equity (Teachers College), this accessible guide compiles the most up-to-date research findings to demonstrate how ignoring childrens bilingualism perpetuates inequities in their schooling. What makes this book truly useful is that it offers a thorough description of alternative practices that would transform our schools and students futures, such as building on students home languages and literacy practices in schools, curricular and pedagogical innovations, new approaches to parent and community engagement, and adoptive assessment tools.