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English Language Proficiency Assessments for Young Learners

English Language Proficiency Assessments for Young Learners

Autor: Mikyung Kim Wolf , Yuko Goto Butler

Número de Páginas: 295

English Language Proficiency Assessments for Young Learners provides both theoretical and empirical information about assessing the English language proficiency of young learners. Using large-scale standardized English language proficiency assessments developed for international or U.S. contexts as concrete examples, this volume illustrates rigorous processes of developing and validating assessments with considerations of young learners’ unique characteristics. In this volume, young learners are defined as school-age children from approximately 5 to 13 years old, learning English as a foreign language (EFL) or a second language (ESL). This volume also discusses innovative ways to assess young learners’ English language abilities based on empirical studies, with each chapter offering stimulating ideas for future research and development work to improve English language assessment practices with young learners. English Language Proficiency Assessments for Young Learners is a useful resource for students, test developers, educators, and researchers in the area of language testing and assessment.

Multilingual Learning

Multilingual Learning

Autor: Colin Reilly , Feliciano Chimbutane , John Clegg , Casmir Rubagumya , Elizabeth J. Erling

Número de Páginas: 320

This edited volume provides the follow up to Erling et al.’s (2021) Multilingual Learning and Language Supportive Pedagogies in Sub-Saharan Africa. The strategies put forward in Volume 1 included multilingual pedagogies that allow students to draw on their full linguistic repertoires, translanguaging and other language supportive pedagogies. While there is great traction in the pedagogical strategies proposed in Volume 1, limited progress has been made in terms of multilingual education in SSA. Thus, the main focus of this follow-up volume is to explore the question of why former colonial languages and monolingual approaches continue to be used as the dominant languages of education, even when we have multilingual pedagogies and materials that could and do work and despite substantial evidence that learners have difficulties when taught in a language they do not understand. This book offers perspectives to answer this question through focusing on the internal and external pressures which impact the capacity for implementing multilingual strategies in educational contexts at regional, national, and community levels. Chapters provide insights into how to better understand and work ...

Teaching Science to English Language Learners

Teaching Science to English Language Learners

Autor: Luciana C. De Oliveira , Kristen Campbell Wilcox

Número de Páginas: 252

This edited collection explores how science can be taught to English language learners (ELLs) in 21st century classrooms. The authors focus on the ways in which pre-service and in-service science teachers have developed—or may develop—instructional effectiveness for working with ELLs in the secondary classroom. Chapter topics are grounded in both research and practice, addressing a range of timely topics including the current state of ELL education in the secondary science classroom, approaches to leveraging the talents and strengths of bilingual students in heterogeneous classrooms, best practices in teaching science to multilingual students, and ways to infuse the secondary science teacher preparation curriculum with ELL pedagogy. This book will appeal to an audience beyond secondary content area teachers and teacher educators to all teachers of ELLs, teacher educators and researchers of language acquisition more broadly.

The Language Demands of School

The Language Demands of School

Autor: Alison L. Bailey

Número de Páginas: 248

The Language Demands of School is an edited volume describing an extensive empirical base for academic English testing, instruction and professional development. The chapters comprise empirical research by Bailey and colleagues at the National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, Student Testing (CRESST) at UCLA, and invited contributions by practitioners in the fields of language policy, testing and instruction. The central focus of the chapters is the research conducted by CRESST over the last two years in an attempt to document the academic English language demands placed on school-age learners of English. The three additional chapters give the perspectives of a policy-maker at the state level, test developers, and practitioners. The Language Demands of School fills a gap in the current literature by addressing the kind(s) of English required of K-12 English Learner students from an evidence-based perspective. This is timely given the broader context of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, which has prompted school systems to identify English language proficiency tests to meet the federal mandate. One of the problems that has surfaced in the search for English...

Generative AI in Education

Generative AI in Education

Autor: Ilaria Torre , Diego Zapata-rivera , Chien-sing Lee , Antonio Sarasa-cabezuelo , Ioana Ghergulescu , Paul Libbrecht

Número de Páginas: 133

In the field of education, there is a growing interest in the use of Generative Artificial Intelligence to reshape the educational landscape. Led by our esteemed Associate Editors (Dr. Zapata-Rivera & Prof. Torre) and Review Editors (Profs. Lee, Sarasa-Cabezuelo & Libbrecht & Dr. Ghergulescu), this editorial initiative aims to investigate the transformative potential of Generative AI in various aspects of education. By leveraging machine learning models, these intelligent systems extract useful insights from vast amounts of data, making them capable of delivering highly individualized content. They can analyze a learner's proficiency level, learning style, and pace, and then tailor the study material accordingly. Whether a learner prefers visual aids, textual content, or interactive modules, Generative AI can adapt its content generation strategies to meet distinct preferences and learners’ needs. This ensures an elevated engagement level and enhanced comprehension, highlighting its potential to transform traditional teaching methodologies.

Investigación, Praxis y Experiencias en ELE

Investigación, Praxis y Experiencias en ELE

Autor: Nora M. Basurto Santos , Ismael Guzmán Barrera , Juan Emilio Sánchez Menéndez , José Luis Ortega

Número de Páginas: 239

El interés en la enseñanza, aprendizaje e investigación del español como lengua extranjera (ELE) ha aumentado considerablemente durante las últimas décadas. De acuerdo con el Instituto Cervantes, hoy hablan este idioma más de 591 millones de personas en el mundo, ya sea como lengua nativa, segunda o extranjera. En cuanto a la enseñanza del español como lengua extranjera (ELE), el incremento en los intercambios comerciales entre los países hispanohablantes y el resto del mundo ha contribuido al gran aumento en el número de estudiantes de ELE. Este libro tiene como trasfondo el aumento de estudiantes matriculados a cursos de ELE a nivel global y el creciente interés de la academia por estudiar los procesos de enseñanza y aprendizaje de esta lengua, tanto en su faceta teórica como práctica. Con el fin de examinar la enseñanza ELE desde todas sus aristas, el libro se constituye de tres partes: Investigación, Praxis y Experiencias personales en la enseñanza de ELE. La primera parte incluye aproximaciones diversas a la naturaleza misma de ELE, tales como los cambios que ha habido en la tipificación del docente de ELE y una agenda que se propone contribuir a la...

Assessment of Plurilingual Competence and Plurilingual Learners in Educational Settings

Assessment of Plurilingual Competence and Plurilingual Learners in Educational Settings

Autor: Silvia Melo-pfeifer , Christian Ollivier

Número de Páginas: 284

This book addresses contemporary issues in the assessment of plurilingual competence and plurilingual learners. Offering theoretical and practical lenses, it contributes towards an integrated and holistic assessment of plurilingual competence and plurilingual learners. The book provides both theoretical considerations and empirical approaches around how the specificities of plurilingual learners can be considered when assessing their various competences. It covers topics relating to learners in a variety of plurilingual settings: from the education of adult immigrants, assessment of young refugees and assessment of students in school and university, to the assessment of plurilingual competence in foreign language education. Showcasing a wide range of international authors, the book provides cutting-edge research in the domain of multilingual foreign, second and heritage language assessment, and assessment of content knowledge of plurilingual students. It bridges the gap between the fields of language policies and practices, research on plurilingual competence, and assessment in language education. Providing new insights into a crucial and contentious issue, this volume will be an...

EAL Research for the Classroom

EAL Research for the Classroom

Autor: Gavin Brooks , Jon Clenton , Simon Fraser

Número de Páginas: 250

With an estimated 1.6 million English as an Additional Language (EAL) learners in the UK, and over 5 million in the USA, EAL research is urgently needed to inform practice. This edited volume investigates the multifaceted elements that shape EAL pedagogy and research in a variety of settings and research areas, including linguistic ability influences on subject-specific skills, integrating learners’ home languages into classroom environments, and the importance of supporting EAL teachers in the classroom. In doing so, the contributors provide an international perspective on the emerging field of EAL research. The research-based chapters detail fundamental concerns related to EAL learner education. The text is composed of five parts: Part I explores the question of what is EAL and how a definition can shape policy construction; Part II examines the challenges EAL learners face in the classroom, including the use of first languages and the relative impact learner language proficiency has on subject-specific classes; Part III discusses the challenges involved with preparing learners to study in an EAL environment; Part IV investigates concerns relating to supporting EAL teachers in ...

Educating Emergent Bilinguals

Educating Emergent Bilinguals

Autor: Ofelia Garcia , Jo Anne Kleifgen

Número de Páginas: 257

Now available in a revised and expanded edition, this accessible guide introduces readers to the issues and controversies surrounding the education of language minority students in the United States. What makes this book a perennial favorite are the succinct descriptions of alternative practices for transforming our schools and students’ futures, such as building on students’ home languages and literacy practices, incorporating curricular and pedagogical innovations, using proven-effective approaches to parent engagement, and employing alternative assessment tools. The authors have updated their bestseller to reflect recent shifts in policies, programs, and practices due to globalization and the changing economy; demographic trends; and new research on EL pedagogy. A totally new chapter highlights multimedia and multimodal instructional possibilities for engaging EL students. “This is the book that every educator in 21st-century USA should read. Few will not have students from other-than-English backgrounds at some point.” —Patricia Gándara, co-director, The Civil Rights Project at UCLA “The second edition of this important book is a must-read for researchers,...

Tratado de ultrasonografía abdominal

Tratado de ultrasonografía abdominal

Autor: Asociación Española De Ecografía Digestiva

Número de Páginas: 716

Desde el año 1986, la Comisión de la Especialidad de Aparato Digestivo de nuestro país, a instancias de la Asociación Española de Ecografía Digestiva(AEED) estableció la obligatoriedad de la ecografía en el programa de formación del residente de Aparato Digestivo. Aunque no está concretado el tiempo necesario de rotación por la Unidad de Ecografía, parece evidente que al ser una técnica muy explorador dependiente, con una curva de aprendizaje relativamente lenta, este tiempo no debería ser inferior a los seis meses. La importancia de una buena formación ecográfica es fundamental para el gastroenterólogo. La disponibilidad y fiabilidad que implica el que el mismo especialista de aparato digestivo realice la exploración ecográfica de sus enfermos cuyos síntomas conoce en detalle, ofrece una capacidad diagnóstica probablemente superior a la que pueda ofrecer otro profesional que lógicamente no tiene los mismos conocimientos clínicos de nuestra especialidad. La elaboración de este Tratado surgió de esta necesidad de formación y actualización ecográfica, que constituye la esencia y el sentido de existir de la AEED y de la conciencia clara de que no existía...

Assessing English Language Proficiency in U.S. K–12 Schools

Assessing English Language Proficiency in U.S. K–12 Schools

Autor: Mikyung Kim Wolf

Número de Páginas: 291

Assessing English Language Proficiency in U.S. K–12 Schools offers comprehensive background information about the generation of standards-based, English language proficiency (ELP) assessments used in U.S. K–12 school settings. The chapters in this book address a variety of key issues involved in the development and use of those assessments: defining an ELP construct driven by new academic content and ELP standards, using technology for K–12 ELP assessments, addressing the needs of various English learner (EL) students taking the assessments, connecting assessment with teaching and learning, and substantiating validity claims. Each chapter also contains suggestions for future research that will contribute to the next generation of K–12 ELP assessments and improve policies and practices in the use of the assessments. This book is intended to be a useful resource for researchers, graduate students, test developers, practitioners, and policymakers who are interested in learning more about large-scale, standards-based ELP assessments for K–12 EL students.

Handbook of Multilingual TESOL in Practice

Handbook of Multilingual TESOL in Practice

Autor: Kashif Raza , Dudley Reynolds , Christine Coombe

Número de Páginas: 520

This book presents exemplars of multilingualism in TESOL worldwide. It incorporates essential topics such as curriculum development, classroom instruction, materials creation, assessment, and teacher training where TESOL and multilingualism co-exist and co-develop. The wide-ranging and international collection of chapters is written by leading researchers in multilingualism and TESOL from around the world. This handbook provides unique insights into a range of practical approaches to promote local, indigenous and national languages in English language classrooms across a range of instructional programs in various geographical contexts. The book is divided into six sections. Part 1 presents curricular and principle-based approaches to multilingual TESOL in ESL/EFL classes. Part 2 includes chapters that showcase how diverse teachers bring multilingual TESOL to their classrooms. Part 3 discusses the challenges of teaching multilingual TESOL and how educators address them in their contexts. Part 4 provides activities and materials to support local languages in TESOL classrooms. Part 5 addresses assessment issues in multilingual TESOL. Part 6 includes initiatives and examples to...

El eclipse total de Néstor López / The Total Eclipse of Nestor Lopez (Spanish edition)

El eclipse total de Néstor López / The Total Eclipse of Nestor Lopez (Spanish edition)

Autor: Adrianna Cuevas

Número de Páginas: 213

Lo único que Néstor López quiere es vivir en un mismo lugar por más de unos meses y cenar con su papá. Después de que el papá de Néstor se marcha a otra misión, el muchacho y su mamá se mudan a un nuevo pueblo a vivir con su abuela. Néstor planea pasar desapercibido, y de ninguna manera quiere que nadie sepa su secreto más profundo: que puede hablar con los animales. Pero cuando los animales del pueblo comienzan a desaparecer, la abuela de Néstor se convierte en la principal sospechosa después de ser vista en el mismo bosque donde fueron vistos los animales por última vez. A medida que Néstor investiga la fuente de las desapariciones, descubre que los animales han sido capturados por una criatura misteriosa cuyo poder crece durante los eclipses de sol. Y el próximo eclipse está a la vuelta de la esquina... Les toca a Néstor —con su extraordinaria habilidad— y a sus amigos atrapar al culpable y salvar el sitio que tal vez él podría llamar su hogar.

Who Killed Hope?

Who Killed Hope?

Autor: Barbara Bailey

Número de Páginas: 297

Another brutal murder—this time of a young woman with a lot to look forward to—has just been committed in the usually quiet Devonfield Township. Having just successfully completed their first murder investigation, Alex Stratton and Silas Davis must find another murderer. Helped or hampered by their provisional promotions and having to host a visiting detective from Denmark, the two must work fast to make the residents of their town feel secure. As ever, time is not on their side, and there are many who keep reminding them of that fact. Can Stratton and Davis catch the person who killed Hope?

Dream War

Dream War

Autor: Stephen Prosapio

Número de Páginas: 174

Decades ago, the CIA developed the technology to enter our dreams and extract information. It was only a matter of time before they took things a little too far...When CIA agents conducting dream-link espionage are ambushed by an entity from another dimension, one survivor must overcome memories of past failures and destroy the creature before it fuses our world to a nightmarish reality.

American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting Program

American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting Program

Autor: American Educational Research Association

Número de Páginas: 564
La España de Carlos V y Felipe II

La España de Carlos V y Felipe II

Autor: Rosario De Andrés Verdú , Isabel Mendoza García , María Del Rosario Ruiz Franco

Número de Páginas: 282
Alexander Dallas Bache

Alexander Dallas Bache

Autor: Merle M. Odgers

Número de Páginas: 236

This is the biography of a man who made his greatest contribution to science in his reorganization of the U.S. Coast Survey. Alexander Dallas Bache was appointed superintendent in 1843, and the Survey increased its scope and improved its methods in the study of winds, tides, currents, and harbors under his charge Grandson of Benjamin Franklin, Bache was also active in education. Elected first president of Girard College when he was thirty, he visited European educational institutions in order to study their methods. And it may well be that, because of the admiration felt for his great ancestor, he was received in Europe with more attention than even his scholarship and personality merited. His survey of European educational institutions resulted in his monumental "Report on Education in Europe," which exerted a profound influence on educational methods in the United States. At heart, however, Bache was primarily a scientist and he became a significant figure in the development of American scientific institutions in general, and of Philadelphia in particular. An indefatigable worker, he also served as Superintendent of Weights and Measures in the United States, as a member of the...

La libertad que nos queda

La libertad que nos queda

Autor: Luz Adriana López Velásquez

Número de Páginas: 330

¿Dónde estamos? ¿Qué estamos haciendo? ¿Cuál es la libertad que nos queda? ¿Quién o qué define nuestra condición de libertad: la historia personal o colectiva, la política, la ley? ¿Estamos condicionados a repetir de modo interminable nuestros desaciertos? ¿Estamos signados por la suerte, la fortuna o el destino? Este libro aborda estas preguntas, profundizándolas. Examinamos la relación entre dos argumentos filosóficos, aparentemente contradictorios: el determinismo y la libertad. En la primera parte, la disertación posee una prevalencia filosófica: con Hannah Arendt construimos una reflexión en torno al pensamiento, la acción y la libertad; con Jacques Rancière configuramos el giro estético de la ética y de la política. En la segunda parte, entregamos un análisis poético de la Serie Conde de Leonardo Padura, a través de la cual ponemos en juego los argumentos analizados antes. El hilo conductor es la experiencia de una mujer que lee y escribe tejiendo —en un acto performativo— la evidencia libertaria de ser y estar en este mundo. En nuestro mundo. Estamos heridos. Las heridas nos exigen pausa para sanar mientras resignificamos la experiencia. La...

ChileNazi

ChileNazi

Autor: Carlos Basso Prieto

Número de Páginas: 200

Chile ha tenido una larga historia de partidos, grupos y movimientos inspirados en el totalitarismo nazi. El mundo ha visto un resurgir de las ideologías totalitarias. Y mientras algunos creen que no hay que darle importancia a los grupos de inspiración fascista, otros sostienen que no debe cometerse el error de subestimar su existencia. Aunque una de las principales características de los nazis es renegar de su esencia como tales e incluso, hoy en día, tratar de endosar a otros su ideología, la doctrina nacionalsocialista en Chile tiene al menos 116 años de existencia. Esta larga relación de nuestro país con las ideas ultranacionalista, racistas y sus brotes de violencia están consignadas en varias páginas de nuestra historia. Sus seguidores y militantes están involucrados en actos criminales incluso ya a principios del siglo pasado. Desde peleas callejeras a intentos de golpe de Estado, pasando por bombazos, «barridas» y crímenes de odio, la figuración constante de simpatizantes y adeptos al neonazismo en nuestro país, hacen necesario revisar y estudiar su constante presencia en la vida política.

López Bravo

López Bravo

Autor: Gabriel Pérez Gómez

Número de Páginas: 369

Gregorio López Bravo se defnía a sí mismo como «liberal reprimido» mientras formaba parte del Gobierno de Franco como ministro de Industria y luego de Asuntos Exteriores. Sin participar de la ideología falangista dominante, supo ganarse a Franco con una política realista, que fue sacando a España de su régimen autocrático y le abrió las puertas a un mundo que le había dado la espalda. Llegó hasta donde pudo, en una nación aún no democrática. Bajo su mandato se establecieron relaciones diplomáticas con algunos países del Este y con China, y esa audacia provocó su caída al llegar Carrero Blanco a la Presidencia del Gobierno. Gibraltar, el Tratado de Amistad y Cooperación con los EE. UU., el tratado preferencial con la CEE, las relaciones Iglesia-Estado, el mundo árabe... son algunos de los momentos importantes de este ingeniero naval, padre de nueve hijos, fallecido en un trágico accidente de aviación.

Reports of Selected Cases Decided in Courts of the State of New York Other Than the Court of Appeals and the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court

Reports of Selected Cases Decided in Courts of the State of New York Other Than the Court of Appeals and the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court

Autor: New York (state) , New York (state). Courts

Número de Páginas: 1178
Register of Commissioned and Warrant Officers of the United States Navy and Reserve Officers on Active Duty

Register of Commissioned and Warrant Officers of the United States Navy and Reserve Officers on Active Duty

Autor: United States. Navy

Número de Páginas: 646
Register of the Commissioned and Warrant Officers of the United States Navy and Marine Corps and Reserve Officers on Active Duty

Register of the Commissioned and Warrant Officers of the United States Navy and Marine Corps and Reserve Officers on Active Duty

Número de Páginas: 636
DIC MIHI, MVSA, VIRVM : Homenaje al profesor Antonio López Eire

DIC MIHI, MVSA, VIRVM : Homenaje al profesor Antonio López Eire

Autor: Francisco CortÉs Gabaudan (ed.) , Julián Víctor Méndez Dosuna

Número de Páginas: 728

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