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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