Community partnerships / edited by Elsa Auerbach.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Auerbach, Elsa.

James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

Series:

Case studies in TESOL practice series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers--Case studies.

English language.

Community and school--Case studies.

Community and school.

English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

viii, 186 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Alexandria, Va. : Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, [2002]

Contents:

Shifting roles, shifting goals : integrating language, culture, and community / Elsa Auerbach

"Even I would like to be bilingual" : parents learning English at their children's school / Julia Menard-Warwick

"Start with what they know; build with what they have" : survival skills for refugee women / Genevieve Fridland and Teresa Dalle

Community service learning : making the match between preservice teachers and ESL students / Solange A. Lopes-Murphy and Doris Martin

Collisions on the road to citizenship : "Thanks to God I passed"

A recreational welcome : an ESOL home tutoring community partnership in New Zealand / Marily Lewis, Therese O'Connell, and Grace Bassett

From isolation to education : working with Somali families in South London / Jawaheir Elmi, Margaret Folarin, Ahmed Moalin, and Shan Rees

Building culture and community : family and community literacy partnerships in Canada's north / Kim Crockatt and Suzanne Smythe

Using a community-based curriculum to promote literacy in Soweto / Letta Mashishi

Getting an even start : family literacy through participation and collaboration / Ana Huerta-Macias

Building community with books : the Libros y Familias program / Dick Keis

Creative acts, critical insights : adult writing workshops in two Chicago neighborhoods / Hal Adams and Hanise Hurtig

Wild power : school-community partnerships in a South African school district / Andrew Schofield.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-176) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

ISBN:

0939791994

OCLC:

52376945