ELTWeekly Issue#15, Book of the week: Teaching Content to English Language Learners
By Tarun Patel
Teaching Content to English Language Learners
By Jodi Reiss
Book Description
Teaching Content to English Language Learners, by Jodi Reiss, shows content-area teachers how to transform second-language learning theories into useful tools for ensuring the success of their ELL students. The book’s three parts present easy-to-incorporate techniques to make content more accessible, strengthen vocabulary, and increase student participation. The book offers: *practical strategies for building on common classroom techniques and activities to increase teaching effectiveness for language-learning students *techniques to recognize cultural differences, develop alternative assessments, and adapt written assignments and oral language for ELLs *abundant models, graphics, and authentic examples that show how to help students build content-area fluency as well as general language skills
From the Back Cover
Teaching Content to English Language Learners, by Jodi Reiss, shows content-area teachers how to transform second-language learning theories into useful tools for ensuring the success of their ELL students. The book’s three parts present easy-to-incorporate techniques to make content more accessible, strengthen vocabulary, and increase student participation.
The book offers:
- practical strategies for building on common classroom techniques and activities to increase teaching effectiveness for language-learning students
- techniques to recognize cultural differences, develop alternative assessments, and adapt written assignments and oral language for ELLs
- abundant models, graphics, and authentic examples that show how to help students build content-area fluency as well as general language skills
- Paperback: 144 pages
- Publisher: Pearson ESL (November 26, 2004)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0131523570
- ISBN-13: 978-0131523579
- Price: $34.67
This book goes along the same line of those books that tell you pre-made recipes on how to teach language. All the techniques and strategies presented don’t take the student’s perspective into concern. They are mostly teacher-oriented and may work for some situations but not for a changing climate like the language classrooms.
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ELTWeekly Issue#15 
April 11th, 2009About... Tarun Patel
This author published 569 posts in this site.Tarun Patel (http://tarunpatel.net/blog/) is an ELT and Communication skills teacher, working with Charotar University of Science & Technology (CHARUSAT - http://charusat.ac.in/). He has been dealing with the Language learning processes for last seven years. 'Technology in Teaching English' is his favorite domain and he has presented several research papers in national and international conferences on the same theme. He is the founder editor of ELTWeekly (http://eltweekly.com/), India's first weekly ELT eNewsletter which reaches in more than forty countries and benefits more than 1600d teachers of English and Communication Skills. Have a look at his personal blog http://tarunpatel.net/blog/.
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