All teachers and administrators must know how to educate multilingual students, particularly English language learners!Foundations for Teaching English Language Learners: Research, Theory, Policy, and Practice by Wayne E. Wright is a comprehensive course text on ELL education for pre-service elementary and secondary teachers as well as literacy, special education, English as a second language (ESL), and bilingual specialists. This foundational text also targets educational leaders, including coaches, counselors, directors, and administrators working toward equity and excellence in multilingual schools and communities. This text prepares educators to meet state competency requirements in ELL education. Foundations for Teaching ELLs includes an interactive companion website with extensive resources for students and professors. Professors appreciate the Professor Control Panel on the site, which includes slide presentations that Dr. Wright has made to accompany each chapter, a sample course syllabus, and much more.Students Learn ToMake research-based decisions on ELL policies, programs, practices, and assessmentRelate language and literacy teaching and learning theories and practiceDifferentiate core content-area instruction for multilingual learners, including ELLsTeach oral language, reading, and writing in all content areasUse students' home languages and technology as resources for learningSpecial FeaturesGuiding questions and key termsTables, boxes, figures, glossaryVignettes, teaching strategies, samples of student workChapter review activities, discussion questions, research activities, recommended readingsCompanion websiteProfessor Control Panel on companion websiteNew to the Third EditionA stronger multilingual perspective on ELL education, with attention to new research, theory, and practice on dynamic bilingualism and translanguagingNew regulations, accountability requirements, and flexibility regarding ELLs since the reauthorization of The Every Student Succeeds ACT(ESSA) in 2018Greater focus on the complex language and literacy demands of the Next Generation Science Standards as well as other content-area standards—not just for ELLs, but for all studentsNew research on ELLs in content-area classes from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in their 2017 report Promoting the Educational Success of Children and Youth Learning English: Promising Futures.The integration of new principles by Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL, 2018) for the exemplary teaching of ELLs.
| ISBN: | 9781681256610 |
| Publication date: | 17th June 2022 |
| Author: | Wayne E. Wright |
| Publisher: | Brookes Publishing |
| Format: | Ebook (PDF) |