Additional Reading

The following resources were consulted when creating this ELE Program website. For information in obtaining these or other materials related to English Learner Education, please contact your building EL teacher.

Brown, H. D. (1994). Principles of Language Learning and Teaching. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall.

Cohen, E. (1994). Designing Groupwork: Strategies for the Heterogeneous Classroom. New York: Teachers College Press.

Cummins, J. (1979) "Cognitive/Academic Language Proficiency, Linguistic Interdependence, the Optimum Age Question and some other Matters." Working Papers on Bilingualism, No. 19, 121-129.

Darder, A. (1991). "The Link between Culture and Power." Culture and Power in the Classroom: A Critical Foundation for Bicultural Education. New York: Bergin & Garvey.

Del Vecchio, A. & Guerrero, M. (1995). Handbook of English Language Proficiency Tests. Evaluation Assistance Center - Western Region New Mexico Highlands University, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Echevarría, J. and Graves, A. (1998). Sheltered Content Instruction: Teaching English-Language Learners with Diverse Abilities. Boston: Allyn & Bacon.

Freire, Paulo, and Donaldo P. Macedo (1987). Literacy : Reading the Word & the World. Critical Studies in Education series. South Hadley, Mass.: Bergin & Garvey.

Gardner, R. C. (1982). "Social Factors in Language Retention". In: Lambert and Freed (1982), The Loss of Language Skills. Rowley, Mass.: Newbury House.

Gonzalez, V., Brusca-Vega, R, & Yawkey, T. (1997). Assessment and Instruction of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students with or at-risk of Learning Problems. Boston: Allyn & Bacon.

Heath, S. B. (1996; 1983). Ways with Words: Language, Life, and Work in Communities and Classrooms. Cambridge England; New York: Cambridge University Press.

Hill, M. (2002). "Focusing the Teacher's Gaze: Primary Teachers Reconstructing Assessment in Self-Managed Schools." Educational Research for Policy and Practice, 1.

Klingner, J.K. & Artiles, A. (2003). "When Should Bilingual Students Be in Special Education?" Education Leadership, 61 (2).

Lachat, M. (1999). What Policymakers and School Administrators Need to Know about Assessment Reform for English Language Learners. Providence, Rhode Island: Brown University, Northeast and Islands Regional Education Laboratory.

Larsen-Freeman, D. and Long, M.H. (1992). An Introduction to Second Language Acquisition Research. New York: Longman.

Leistyna, P. (1999). Presence of Mind: Education and the Politics of Deception. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press.

Mantero, M. (2002), "Bridging the Gap: Discourse in Text-Based Foreign Language Classrooms." Foreign Language Annals, 35: 437–456. doi: 10.1111/j.1944-9720.2002.tb01883.x

Ogbu, J. (1987). "Variability in Minority Responses to Schooling: Nonimmigrants vs. Immigrants." Interpretive Ethnography of Education. New York: Bergin & Garvey.

Schumann, J. H. (1986). "Research on the Acculturation Model for Second Language Acquisition." Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 7, 379-392.

Villegas, A.M. (1988). "School Failure and Cultural Mismatch: Another View." In: The Urban Review, 4.

Williams, J.D., & Snipper, G.C. (1990). Literacy and Bilingualism. White Plains, New York: Longman.