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Responding To Linguistic Diversity, Nancy Commins
Responding To Linguistic Diversity, Nancy Commins
Nancy L. Commins
Second language learners arrive at every grade level with a variety of experiences and differing academic backgrounds. Responding to their learning needs means accommodating the entire range of students from monolingual English speakers to monolingual speakers of other languages, and a variety of bilingual profiles in between. This article discusses how schools adopt a "blue pathway" mindset for improving instruction for all learners. The blue pathway, which also leads to academic competence, represents best practice for second language learners--strategies and approaches that from the outset account for language proficiency and cultural diversity. Instruction on the blue pathway can be summed …
A Descriptive Study Of The Linguistic Abilities Of A Selected Group Of Low Achieving Hispanic Bilingual Students, Nancy Commins, Ofelia Miramontes
A Descriptive Study Of The Linguistic Abilities Of A Selected Group Of Low Achieving Hispanic Bilingual Students, Nancy Commins, Ofelia Miramontes
Nancy L. Commins
A study investigated the notion that bilingual students' low academic achievement may be due to semilingualism (having limited language skills) in each of the two languages, and the cognitive deficits that presumably result. The subjects were two boys and two girls from the fifth and sixth grades with low proficiency in either English or Spanish. Data were drawn from observations and audiotaping of natural and structured conversations and interviews were conducted with each family to provide information on the students' language performance both within and outside school. No evidence emerged that any subject mixed Spanish and English, but all code-switched …
Betwixt And Between The Colonial And The Postcolonial, Cheryl E. Matias
Betwixt And Between The Colonial And The Postcolonial, Cheryl E. Matias
Cheryl Matias
No abstract provided.
An Eye On Pinoy: Getting Connected, Cheryl E. Matias-Padua
An Eye On Pinoy: Getting Connected, Cheryl E. Matias-Padua
Cheryl Matias
No abstract provided.