Making the transition to classroom success : culturally responsive teaching for struggling language learners / Helaine W. Marshall, Ph. D., Andrea DeCapua, Ed. D.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marshall, Helaine W.

Contributor:

DeCapua, Andrea.

James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Immigrants--Education--United States.

Immigrants.

Linguistic minorities--Education--United States.

Linguistic minorities.

Linguistic minorities--Education.

Immigrants--Education.

United States.

Physical Description:

xiii, 137 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2013]

Summary:

"Learners with no, minimal, or limited exposure to formal education generally do not share the expectations and assumptions of their new setting; as a result, they are likely to find themselves confounded by the ways in which the language and content are presented, practiced, and assessed in Western-style educational settings. Institutions and teachers must tailor therefore their instruction to this population. Making the Transition to Classroom Success: Culturally Responsive Teaching for Struggling Language Learners examines how understanding secondary and adult L2 learners' educational paradigm, rooted deeply in their past experiences and cultural orientations, provides a key to the solution to a lack of progress. Making the Transition to Classroom Success builds on and expands on two earlier books, Meeting the Needs of Students with Limited or Interrupted Formal Schooling and Breaking New Ground: Teaching Students with Limited or Interrupted Formal Education in U.S. Secondary Schools. These previous books focused specifically on a subset of struggling L2 learners--those with limited or interrupted formal education (SLIFE) in U.S. secondary schools--and detailed the instructional model (MALP). Making the Transition broadens the applications of the MALP model to include academic thinking tasks, flipped classrooms, project design, and rubrics"--Back cover.

Contents:

Culture and learning

The intercultural communication framework

Overview of MALP

Scaffolding academic ways of thinking and responding

Designing projects

Flipping the classroom

The MALP learning environment

Assessing the implementation of MALP.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-132) and index.

Local Notes:

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

ISBN:

9780472035335

0472035339

OCLC:

828768368

Publisher Number:

99985145154