Art as a Way of Talking for Emergent Bilingual Youth

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Art as a Way of Talking for Emergent Bilingual Youth is written by Berta Rosa Berriz and published by Routledge. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1351204211 (ISBN 10) and 9781351204217 (ISBN 13).

This book features effective artistic practices to improve literacy and language skills for emergent bilinguals in PreK-12 schools. Including insights from key voices from the field, this book highlights how artistic practices can increase proficiency in emergent language learners and students with limited access to academic English. Challenging current prescriptions for teaching English to language learners, the arts-integrated framework in this book is grounded in a sense of student and teacher agency and offers key pedagogical tools to build upon students’ sociocultural knowledge and improve language competence and confidence. Offering rich and diverse examples of using the arts as a way of talking, this volume invites teacher educators, teachers, artists, and researchers to reconsider how to fully engage students in their own learning and best use the resources within their own multilingual educational settings and communities.