Education of bilingual or multilingual students Books

Black and Wiliam's (1998) influential article Inside the Black Box prompted an increasing interest in assessment processes within the classroom. However, to date most of this research has been done in general and science education. This book reports on a...

Mit der Veröffentlichung des Gemeinsamen Europäischen Referenzrahmens (GER) im Jahre 2001 wurde versucht, für Fremdsprachenlerner in Europa ein allgemeines Bewertungskonzept zur Verfügung zu stellen, das als Orientierungshilfe im sprachlichen Bereich...

The book presents the process of first and second language acquisition in children as well as the main principles of conventional and unconventional approaches and methods implemented in the general education as well as the language education of children...

Dieser Sammelband enthält Beiträge der sprechwissenschaftlichen Fachtagung Interpersonelle Kommunikation - Analyse und Optimierung (7.-10.10.2010 in Halle). Die Beiträge befassen sich mit Forschungsstand, Forschungsfragen und Desiderata der Analyse und...

The last comprehensive study of the motives for studying German in Australia was conducted in the late 1980s. The main objective of this thesis is not only to fill the gap of recent data but at the same time to analyse the new data in the context of...

Is two-way immersion education associated with social and intercultural benefits? This book examines social and intercultural benefits of bilingual or two-way immersion (TWI) schooling in Staatliche Europa-Schule Berlin (SESB). The author uses...

Early literacy is tackled from different angles. Researchers from Germany, Spain and Australia focus on learning to read and spell in two languages as well as on models and stages in the acquisition of literacy. Finally first teaching methods are...

This volume is a collection of German and English papers presented at a symposium for young researchers on 'Norms in Educational Linguistics', which was held in Giessen (Germany) in 2008. The proceedings represent a multitude of philologies, theoretical...

Forschung im Bereich des bilingualen Sachfachunterrichts ist dem Stadium des reinen Erfahrungsberichtes entwachsen und stellt sich immer weiter gefasste, grundlegende Fragen. Die in diesem Band gesammelten Beiträge von Forschern aus verschiedenen Ländern...

It has long been noted that high-stakes language exams exert a powerful influence on teaching and learning, a phenomenon known as the washback effect (Alderson and Wall, 1993). However, due to the complex nature of the phenomenon, little research has...

Vor dem Hintergrund von Globalisierungsprozessen, Migrationsbewegungen und neuen Medien ändern sich die Anforderungen an sprachliche Kompetenzen. Prozesse des natürlichen sowie des gesteuerten Spracherwerbs werden überlagert von den neuen Anforderungen...

The student's practice book "Cuaderno de Práctica de las consonantes" includes 270 practice pages that are designed for kindergarten students in order for them to practice the Conventions of Standard Spanish Grammar (Normas y convenciones del español)...

Chinese Made Easy is a book written by Walter Brooks Brouner and published in 1904. The book is aimed at teaching the Chinese language to English-speaking students. It is divided into 30 lessons, each of which covers a different aspect of the language,...