Bilingual And Esl Classrooms

Download or read book Bilingual and ESL Classrooms written by Carlos Julio Ovando and published by McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages. This book was released on 1998 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The major goal of this book is to take a comprehensive look at research, policy, and effective practices in U.S. schools for students who are from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. The demographic predictions are that students with close connections to their bilingual/bicultural heritages (now labeled 'language minority students' by the federal government) will be very large in number in the near future, becoming the majority in many states over the next three decades. Thus we educators urgently need to provide appropriate, meaningful, and effective schooling for these students, who too often have been underserved by U.S. schools. This book speaks to all educators, with the goal of providing rich examples of effective practices and their underlying research knowledge base" (page xiii).