Second language students in mainstream classrooms : a handbook for teachers in international schools
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Second language students in mainstream classrooms : a handbook for teachers in international schools
(Parents' and teachers' guide, 2)
Multilingual Matters, c1998
- : hdk
- : pbk
Available at 12 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This handbook is designed as an aid for teachers of second language children in the mainstream classrooms of international schools. English-medium international schools draw their varied student populations from a wide range of mobile and internationally-minded families, who have high expectations for their children. It is the teacher's role to create a classroom environment where second language children flourish socially and academically at the same time as they become competent users of English. This handbook offers a wealth of practical suggestions for enabling teachers to create such a classroom. The contents cover all aspects of second language children's lives including social, emotional and pedagogic factors. There are chapters covering such areas as the nature of international schooling, issues of cultural adjustment and language learning. Further chapters give teachers practical, down-to-earth advice, subject by subject, relating to the language and academic needs of second language children in the curriculum areas of the programme. There are extensive suggestions relating to teacher resources and further reading. Separate textboxes throughout the handbook, containing extracts, quotations and cameos from real life, are designed to shed light on the lives of second language children and their teachers in international schools.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Setting the Scene
2. Cultural Adjustments - Helping Teachers to Understand
3. Going to School in English - Second Language Learning Issues
4. Day-to-Day Life in the Classroom - Language Acquisition in Practice
5. Day-to-Day Life in the Classroom - Management Issues
6. Day-to-Day Life in the Classroom - Strategies that Support Second Language Children
7. Teaching Language Arts to Young Second Language Students in Mainstream Classrooms
8. Teaching Language Arts to Older Second Language Students in Mainstream Classrooms
9. Strategies for Supporting Second Language Students in Mainstream Mathematics Classes
10. Answering the Needs of Second Language Students in Social Studies and Science
11. Further Resources Available to Teachers of Second Language Children
Appendix A: Resources for Teachers
Appendix B: Internet Sites of Use to Teachers
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