Language, Power and Pedagogy: Bilingual Children in the Crossfire (Cummins Jim)(Paperback)

Language, Power and Pedagogy: Bilingual Children in the Crossfire (Cummins Jim)(Paperback)

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

The Bilingual Edge: Why, When, and How to Teach Your Child a Second Language (King Kendall)(Paperback)

It's no secret that parents want their children to have the lifelong cultural and intellectual advantages that come from being bilingual. Parents spend millions of dollars every year on classes, computer programs, and toys, all of which promise to help children learn a second language. But many of

Missing - The Unsolved Cases of Ireland's Vanished Women and Children (Cummins Barry)(Paperback / softback)

Language Sampling with Children and Adolescents (Nippold)(Paperback)

The third edition of Language Sampling With Children and Adolescents: Implications for Intervention provides guidelines for analyzing spoken and written language production in both children and adolescents. The text, which is geared for graduate students and practicing speech-language pathologists,

The Bilingual Brain: And What It Tells Us about the Science of Language (Costa Albert)(Paperback)

'Fascinating. . . This engaging book explores just how multiple languages are acquired and sorted out by the brain. . . Costa's work derives from a great fund of knowledge, considerable curiosity and solidly scientific spirit' Philip Hensher Spectator The definitive study of bilingualism and the

Bilingual Education in the 21s (Garca Ofelia)(Paperback)

Bilingual Education in the 21st Century examines languagesand bilingualism as individual and societal phenomena, presentsprogram types, variables, and policies in bilingual education, andconcludes by looking at practices, especially pedagogies andassessments. This thought-provoking work is an ideal

The Language, Society and Power Reader (Mooney Annabelle)(Paperback)

The Language, Society and Power Reader is the definitive reader for students studying introductory modules in language and society. Highly user-friendly, this wide-ranging collection of key readings introduces students to the thoughts and writings of major writers working within the area of

Directed Motivational Currents and Language Education: Exploring Implications for Pedagogy (Muir Christine)(Paperback)

This book presents empirical research which investigates directed motivational currents (DMCs) in the context of second language learning and motivation. The studies explore participants' individual experiences of DMCs, and the practical implications of DMC theory for L2 pedagogy through the use of

Assessing Multilingual Children Disentangling Bilingualism from Language Impairment (Armon-Lotem Sharon)(Paperback)

This book presents a comprehensive set of tools for assessing the linguistic abilities of bilingual children. It aims to disentangle effects of bilingualism from those of Specific Language Impairment (SLI), making use of both models of bilingualism and models of language

In Flux: American Jewelry and the Counterculture (Cummins Susan)(Paperback)

In Flux explains how jewellery contributed to the raucous, contradictory, and enthusiastic clamour for a new kind of society that made the 1960s and 1970s so

An Introduction to Bilingual Development (de Houwer Annick)(Paperback)

Increasingly, children grow up hearing two languages from birth. This introductory textbook shows how children learn to understand and speak those languages against the backdrop of their language learning environments. A narrative around the bilingual development of four young children with

Child Language: Acquisition and Development (Saxton Matthew)(Paperback)

Presented with the latest thinking and research on how children acquire their first language, this new Second Edition helps readers develop the skills to engage with key debates and current research in the field of child language. This practical text assumes the reader has no background knowledge

Life as a Bilingual: Knowing and Using Two or More Languages (Grosjean Franois)(Paperback)

Reflected in You - A Crossfire Novel (Day Sylvia)(Paperback / softback)

As beautiful and flawless on the outside as he was damaged and tormented on the inside. He was a bright, scorching flame that singed me with the darkest of pleasures. I couldn't stay away. I didn't want to. He was my addiction... my every desire... mine. My past was as violent as his, and I was

Teaching Victorian Literature in the Twenty-First Century: A Guide to Pedagogy (Cadwallader Jen)(Paperback)

This edited collection offers undergraduate Literature instructors a guide to the pedagogy and teaching of Victorian literature in liberal arts

Emotions and English Language Teaching: Exploring Teachers' Emotion Labor (Benesch Sarah)(Paperback)

Taking a critical approach that considers the role of power, and resistance to power, in teachers' affective lives, Sarah Benesch examines the relationship between English language teaching and emotions in postsecondary classrooms. The exploration takes into account implicit feeling rules that may

Collector (Cummins Fiona)(Paperback / softback)

The Collector is the taut and terrifying psychological thriller from Fiona Cummins, the author of

The Prophet: Bilingual Spanish and English Edition (Gibran Khalil)(Paperback)

A bilingual Spanish and English edition of The Prophet, with Gibran's original drawings, in t te-b che format. The book follows Gibran's original 1923 first edition, complete with his drawings, and has a new Spanish translation. Both the Spanish and English are lined up page for page, and the pages

Vocabulary: Description, Acquisition and Pedagogy (Schmitt Norbert)(Paperback)

This volume examines the area of second language vocabulary studies from three broad perspectives: description, acquisition and pedagogical context. The book's fifteen chapters are grouped together to achieve a balance between descriptions of what vocabulary is and how it behaves, how the mind

Childhood Speech, Language, and Listening Problems (Hamaguchi Patricia McAleer)(Paperback)

The essential, up-to-date guide for helping children with language and listening problems Does your child have trouble getting the right words out, following directions, or being understood? In this revised new edition of Childhood Speech, Language, and Listening Problems, speech-language

Snow Angel (St John Lauren)(Paperback / softback)

Set in Africa and Scotland, a novel about forgotten children and the power of nature to heal and reconnect us. It's about a girl who will climb mountains in her search for a place to call

Developing and Evaluating Quality Bilingual Practices in Higher Education (Rubio-Alcal Fernando D.)(Paperback)

This book provides an overview and evaluation of the quality of bilingual education found in internationalised higher education institutions. Its authors focus on the multifaceted roles that language(s) play in these growing multilingual spaces and analyse and identify the many factors that account

Salome: A Dual-Language Book (English - French) (Wilde Oscar)(Paperback)

When you want to read in both French and English, though, there's a great option: bilingual books Reading bilingual books and inferring the vocabulary and grammar is a far superior method of language learning than traditional memorization. It is also much less painful. Salome (French: Salom ,

Mis cuentos favoritos. My Favorite Fairy Tales. Bilingual Book in Spanish and English: Bilingue: ingls - espaol libro para nios. Dual Language Book (Bagdasaryan Svetlana)(Paperback)