Welcoming linguistic diversity in early childhood classrooms : learning from international schools / edited by Edna Murphy.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Murphy, Edna.

Series:

Parents' and teachers' guides.

Parents and teachers guides

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language arts (Early childhood).

Early childhood education--Cross-cultural studies.

Early childhood education.

Child development--Cross-cultural studies.

Child development.

Multicultural education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Multilingual Matters, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Teachers in multilingual classrooms have been working for some years to improve their repertoire of ways to address the needs of very young children who enter school not speaking the language of instruction. The work of 22 seasoned teachers and administrators in international schools all over the world, this book contains a wealth of information for classroom teachers, enabling them to face a new school year with confidence, and for administrators to understand more clearly what is involved in the teaching of young children who do not yet understand the school’s language. Written by teachers well experienced in addressing the needs of this young and vulnerable group, this book will come as a boon to new teachers presented with a multilingual classroom for the first time.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1. Young Children Have Stories to Share

Chapter 2. Using Multilingual Strategies in Monolingual Early Childhood Classrooms

Chapter 3. A Year with Five Beginners: Excerpts from the Journal of a First-Grade Teacher

Chapter 4. Developing the Basic English Language Skills of Young Children in a Linguistically Diverse Classroom

Chapter 5. An International School Celebrates its Diversity

Chapter 6. An Amazing Journey: Making English Language Learners Successful

Chapter 7. The Importance of Maintaining Mother Tongue and Culture in the Classroom

Chapter 8. Young Mathematicians: Global Learners

Chapter 9. Meeting the Needs of Young Second-Language Learners who Struggle

Chapter 10. The Benefi ts of Sign Language in the International Preschool Curriculum

Chapter 11. Addressing Transition and Mobility Issues with English Language Learners in the Early Childhood Years

Chapter 12. Music: The Universal Language

Chapter 13. Italiano Sì! Sì!: Teaching Italian through PE

Chapter 14. The Role of the Library in Supporting Young Language Learners and their Families

Chapter 15. Breaking the Silence: One School’s Solution to a Noncommunicative Class

Chapter 16. Library Programming for Young English Language Learners

Chapter 17. Listening to Parents: Acknowledging the Range of Linguistic and Cultural Experience in an Early Childhood Classroom

Chapter 18. Writing and Implementing a Language Policy in the Primary Section of a Linguistically Diverse School

Chapter 19. Maintaining Mother Tongue and Home Culture in a Child’s School Experience

Chapter 20. Joining the Mother-Tongue Conversation from an Administrator’s Perspective

Chapter 21. Native Languages and the International Baccalaureate

Chapter 22. If You Ask a Silly Question You Sometimes Get a Serious Answer

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 07. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

1-283-14769-6

9786613147691

1-84769-348-2

OCLC:

742515362