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Community Literacies En Confianza: Learning from Bilingual After-School Programs

Community Literacies En Confianza: Learning from Bilingual After-School Programs

Paperback

Series: Principles in Practice

Bilingual EducationGeneral EducationTeaching Instruction

ISBN10: 0814107869
ISBN13: 9780814107867
Publisher: Natl Council Of Teachers Of En
Published: Jun 21 2017
Pages: 107
Weight: 0.62
Height: 0.40 Width: 9.00 Depth: 7.40
Language: English

Most teachers of English language learners are not fluently bilingual, and many don't receive formal professional development in teaching emergent bilingual students.

Thus, they aren't always adequately prepared to meet the challenges of working with this growing demographic of K-12 students in US classrooms. So teachers' greatest resources, argues Steven Alvarez, are the students themselves, with both a facility in their home language and ties to their home communities. After-school programs focused on English learners, Alvarez suggests, offer a way for parents, teachers, and volunteers to come together to navigate school systems and the English language, share stories, and work to develop facility in reading and writing across languages.

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