Becoming biliterate : a study of two-way bilingual immersion education / Bertha Perez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pérez, Bertha, 1945- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mexican American children--Education--Texas--San Antonio--Case studies.

Mexican American children.

Education, Bilingual--Texas--San Antonio--Case studies.

Education, Bilingual.

Immersion method (Language teaching)--Texas--San Antonio--Case studies.

Immersion method (Language teaching).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (259 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book describes the development process and dynamics of change in the course of implementing a two-way bilingual immersion education program in two school communities. The focus is on the language and literacy learning of elementary-school students and on how it is influenced by parents, teachers, and policymakers. Pérez provides rich, highly detailed descriptions, both quantitative and qualitative, of the change process at the two schools involved, including student language and achievement data for five years of program implementation that were used to test the basic two-way bilingual th

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Language and Literacy Education of Mexican-Origin and Mexican American Children; 2 The Community, School Context, and Students; 3 Leadership and Parents; 4 Oral Language Practices; 5 Developing Literacy; 6 Academic Biliteracy; 7 Testing Pressures and Student Outcomes; 8 Teachers' Role and Impact; 9 Politics, Policy, and Theory; Appendix; References; Author Index; Subject Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-217) and indexes.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-135-62084-9

1-135-62085-7

1-283-24119-6

9786613241191

1-4106-0933-2

9781410609335

OCLC:

437204723