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| Title | Building on Community Bilingualism |
| Body | From: "sm167" Building on Community Bilingualism Rebecca Freeman ISBN 0-9727507-0-3 Paperback/ 0-9727507-1-1 Hardback Published by Caslon Publishing (www.caslonpublishing.com) Key Features * Explains how language planning can promote educational and social change on the local level * Includes an ethnographic and discourse analytic study of bilingualism and education in one Latino community during a period of significant educational reform * Offers guidelines for developing programs and policies that promote heritage language development in a range of language (Spanish, Chinese, Russian, Khmer, Vietnamese) and education (bilingual, world language, heritage language) contexts. Description Building on Community Bilingualism explains why and demonstrates how schools that serve multilingual communities can promote English language development, academic achievement AND expertise in community languages. This book provides a solid review of the fields of bilingual education, English as a second language (ESL), world/foreign language education, heritage language education, and language policy and planning, and serves as a guide for teachers, administrators, and researchers who are working to address the complex language and literacy needs of students in schools today. Author Information Rebecca Freeman earned her Ph.D. in sociolinguistics at Georgetown University. She has conducted ethnographic and discourse analytic research on bilingualism and education in multilingual communities in the United States since the mid 1980s. Her first book, Bilingual Education and Social Change (Multilingual Matters 1998), provides a case study of the successful two-way immersion program at Oyster Bilingual School in Washington D.C. Freeman also works in the professional development of bilingual education, ESL, world and heritage language teachers, administrators, program developers, and policy makers in the US and internationally. Ordering Information: Books can be ordered on-line through Caslon Publishing (www.caslonpublishing.com) Or by phone: University of Toronto Press at 1-800-565-9523 By fax: University of Toronto Press at 800-221-9985 or at Caslon Publishing at 215-765-7699 By mail: Customer Order Department, UTP Distribution, 5201 Dufferin Street, North York, Ontario M3H 5T8. |
| Source | Rebecca Freeman |
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