Developmental Psychology Arena

La Clase M gica

Imagining Optimal Possibilities in A Bilingual Community of Learners

• By Olga A. V squez, Olga A. Vasquez

La Clase Mágica: Imagining Optimal Possibilities in a Bilingual Community of Learners vividly captures the social and intellectual developments and the promises of an ongoing...

Published October 1st 2002 by Routledge.

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Questionnaires in Second Language Research

Construction, Administration, and Processing

• By Zoltán Dörnyei

One of the most common methods of data collection in second language research is using questionnaires of various kinds. In spite of the wide application...

Published August 1st 2002 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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Enriching Esol Pedagogy

Readings and Activities for Engagement, Reflection, and Inquiry

• Edited by Vivian Zamel, Ruth Spack

Enriching ESOL Pedagogy: Readings and Activities for Engagement, Reflection, and Inquiry is a collection of thought-provoking articles and activities designed to engage practicing and prospective...

Published July 1st 2002 by Routledge.

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Ethical Issues for Esl Faculty

Social Justice in Practice

• By Johnnie Johnson Hafernik, Dorothy S. Messerschmitt, Stephanie Vandrick

This book explicitly addresses ethical dilemmas and issues that post-secondary ESL faculty commonly encounter and examines them in the framework of social justice concerns. Ethics...

Published June 1st 2002 by Routledge.

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Language As Cultural Practice

mexicanos En El Norte

• By Sandra R. Schecter, Robert J. Bayley

Language as Cultural Practice: Mexicanos en el Norte offers a vivid ethnographic account of language socialization practices within Mexican-background families residing in California and Texas....

Published May 1st 2002 by Routledge.

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Developing Advanced Literacy in First and Second Languages

Meaning With Power

• Edited by Mary J. Schleppegrell, M. Cecilia Colombi

This book addresses the linguistic challenges faced by diverse populations of students at the secondary and post-secondary levels as they engage in academic tasks requiring...

Published March 1st 2002 by Routledge.

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Second Language Writers' Text

Linguistic and Rhetorical Features

• By Eli Hinkel

This comprehensive and detailed analysis of second language writers' text identifies explicitly and quantifiably where their text differs from that of native speakers of English....

Published January 1st 2002 by Routledge.

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The Foreign Language Educator in Society

Toward A Critical Pedagogy

• By Timothy G. Reagan, Terry A. Osborn

This text brings together two significant domains of educational practice: foreign language education and critical pedagogy--linking them in a way that can help foreign language...

Published December 1st 2001 by Routledge.

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Genre in the Classroom

Multiple Perspectives

• Edited by Ann M. Johns

For the first time, the major theoretical and pedagogical approaches to genre and related issues of social construction are presented in a single volume, providing...

Published November 1st 2001 by Routledge.

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New Perspectives on Grammar Teaching in Second Language Classrooms

• Edited by Eli Hinkel, Sandra Fotos

New Perspectives on Grammar Teaching in Second Language Classrooms brings together various approaches to the contextualized teaching of grammar and communicative skills as integrated components...

Published July 1st 2001 by Routledge.

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