Language in multicultural education / [edited by] Rumjahn Hoosain and Farideh Salili.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Dimensions of language in multicultural education / Rumjahn Hoosain and Farideh Salili -- Linguistic and cultural heterogeneity in the classroom: Canada and beyond / John Edwards -- Second language teaching for multilingualism and multiculturalism: politics, challenges, and possibilities / Ryuko Kubota -- Resistance to scientific evidence: program evaluation and its lack of influence on policies related to language education programs / Kip Téllez, Susan Leigh Flinspach, and Hersh C. Waxman -- Understanding the power of words in multicultural education and interaction / Festus E. Obiakor and Darren J. Smith -- Fostering equity curriculum and pedagogy: educating students with dialectical variations / Laurel M. Garrick Duhaney -- English and/or mother-tongue instruction: ambivalence in post-apartheid South Africa / Victoria J. Baker -- The effects of medium of instruction on students' motivation and learning / Farideh Salili and Amy B.M. Tsui -- Follow-up study of middle school two-way students: language proficiency, achievement, and attitudes / Kathryn J. Lindholm-Leary and Annette Ferrante -- Language culture and schooling in the United States / Eugene E. Garcia -- The mismatch between teachers and students: meeting the challenge of preparing teachers for diversity / Carmen de Onís -- The complexity of language issues in school desegregation: case studies of Latino students in the United States and Roma students in Bulgaria / Susan Roberta Katz, Hristo Kyuchukov, and Kevin J. Graziano -- Children as language brokers: a narrative of the recollections of college students / Terri L. De Ment, Raymond Buriel, and Christina M. Villanueva -- Culturally responsive approaches to reading in the multicultural classroom / Ming Fang He and Michael C. McKenna -- Critical inquiry in a multicultural setting: educational opportunities in a public university / Martha J. Bell and Robert J. Kelly -- "A l'école on parle français": second language acquisition and the creation of community in a multiethnic Montreal kindergarten / Mela Sarkar -- To be biliterate and trilingual in the Hong Kong special administrative region / Rumjahn Hoosain -- English language study in Belarus within the changing sociopolitical context / Caroline Linse -- Multilingual education: prospects, problems, and issues at a time of greater multiculturalism / Joseph Lo Bianco.

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