Language, Power and Pedagogy : Bilingual Children in the Crossfire.
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TextSerie: Utgivningsuppgift: Clevedon : Multilingual Matters, 2000Datum för upphovsrätt: ©2000Utgåva: 1st edBeskrivning: 1 online resource (317 pages)Innehållstyp: - text
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- 9781853596773
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Part 1 Theory as Dialogue -- Chapter 1 Issues and Contexts -- Chapter 2 Language Interactions in the Classroom: From Coercive to Collaborative Relations of Power -- Part 2 The Nature of Language Proficiency -- Chapter 3 Language Proficiency in Academic Contexts -- Chapter 4 Critiques of the Conversational/ Academic Language Proficiency Distinction -- Chapter 5 Assessing Second Language Proficiency Among Adults: Do We Know What We Are Measuring? -- Chapter 6 Dilemmas of Inclusion: Integrating English Language Learners in Standards-Based Reform -- Part 3 From Bilingual Education to Transformative Pedagogy -- Chapter 7 The Threshold and Interdependence Hypotheses Revisited -- Chapter 8 Research, Theory and Policy in Bilingual Education: Evaluating the Credibility of Empirical Data -- Chapter 9 Challenging the Discourse of Disempowerment Through Collaborative Dialogue -- Chapter 10 Transformative Pedagogy: Who Needs It? -- References -- Subject Index.
This volume reviews the research and theory relating to instruction and assessment of bilingual pupils, focusing not only on issues of language learning and teaching but also the ways in which power relations in the wider society affect patterns of teacher-pupil interaction in the classroom.
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