Language minority students in American schools : an education in English / H.D. Adamson. [print]

Includes bibliographies and index.

1. A personal introduction -- Introduction -- Orientalism versus Anglicism -- Anglicism in bilingual education -- Operation SER -- Language minority students in public schools -- Joel -- Marielena -- George -- Conclusions -- Suggested reading -- 2. First and second language acquisition -- Introduction : three stories of language acquisition -- Behaviorist approaches to language acquisition -- Nativist approaches to language acquisition -- Plato's problem -- Generative approaches to first language acquisition -- Generative grammar -- Universal grammar -- Inside the black box -- Generative approaches to second language acquisition -- The critical period hypothesis -- Perspectives from Pidgin and Creole studies -- Description -- Bioprogram theory -- Articles in Creoles and child language -- Perspectives from cognitive psychology -- The nativization hypothesis -- Information processing approaches -- Summary : the computer metaphor -- Social/cultural approaches to language acquisition -- First language acquisition -- Communicative competence -- Learning speech acts -- Learning a language variety -- Learning to tell a story -- Second language acquisition -- Illocutionary competence -- Sociolinguistic competence -- The acculturation model -- Reconciling cognitive and social/cultural accounts of language acquisition -- Suggested reading -- 3. Language teaching -- Introduction : three approaches to language teaching -- Language teaching before Chomsky -- Traditional education -- Grammar-translation method -- Progressive education -- John Dewey -- The direct method of Berlitz and deSauze -- Behaviorism -- Audio-lingual method -- Language teaching after Chomsky -- The monitor model -- The natural way -- Community language learning -- Content-based instruction -- Teaching communicative competence -- Research on language teaching, focus on form -- Swain and Lapkin's study -- Doughty's study -- Summary -- Teaching other subjects -- Reading -- The reading wars -- The whole language approach -- Teach your baby to read -- Whole language theory -- The language experience method -- The phonics method -- Evaluation of reading methods -- Teaching mathematics -- Conclusions -- Suggested reading -- 4. Standard and vernacular English -- Introduction -- Language variation -- Anniston English -- Double modal verbs -- A-verbing -- Done -- Negative agreement -- Anniston as a speech community -- The grammar gurus -- The rise of standard English -- Standard English in England -- Standard English in the United States -- Black English -- Description -- Ebonics in the schools -- The Oakland School Board resolution -- Classroom aspects of the Ebonics controversy -- Conclusions -- Suggested reading -- 5. Learning in a second language -- Introduction -- Models of learning -- Philosophical background -- Teaching implications -- Experiential realism -- A cognitive study of learning -- A social/cultural study of learning -- Discussion -- Vygotsky -- Activity theory -- The zone of proximal development -- Teaching within a Vygotskian framework -- Academic discourse -- Register variation -- Douglas and Selinker's study -- Rhetorical discourse conventions -- Access to academic discourse -- Academic strategies -- Suggested reading -- 6. School and family / H.D. Adamson, Ellen Courtney -- Introduction -- School -- Family -- Language classes and mainstream classes -- Spanish for native speakers -- Advanced English as a second language -- Mainstream language arts -- Bilingual classes -- Interviews -- Observations -- Bilingual social studies -- Bilingual engineering -- Learning -- Juan studies chemistry -- Joel studies history -- Conclusions -- Suggested reading -- Appendix : a review of the periodic table of the elements -- 7. Bilingual education -- Introduction -- Bilingual education abroad -- The Netherlands -- Sweden -- Quebec -- Bilingual education in the United States -- Richard Rodriguez -- Nuria -- Coral Way Elementary School -- Types of bilingual education programs -- Transitional bilingual education -- Maintenance bilingual education -- Two-way bilingual education -- Methods of bilingual teaching -- Legislative and legal history -- Philosophy of education -- Bilingual education legislation -- Bilingual education legal history -- Lau volume Nichols -- Lau remedies -- Arguments for and against bilingual education -- Bilingual education theory -- Program evaluations -- Large-scale evaluations -- The AIR study -- Baker and de Kanter's study -- Willig's study -- Thomas and Collier's study -- Evaluations of individual programs -- Porter's critique -- Woodward and Gersten's study -- Rock Point study -- Krashen and Biber's study -- California update -- Conclusions -- Suggested reading.

"Language Minority Students in American Schools: An Education in English is intended for students who are preparing to become teachers of English as a second language, and for teachers of other subjects who work with English language learners. Beyond the language acquisition theory and the teaching methods it introduces, a benefit of the text is the inclusion of scholarship related to teaching English as a second language that often is not included in English as a second language courses, such as teaching reading, English as a second dialect, and the teaching of mathematics and history."--Jacket.

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