Educating Emergent Bilinguals: Policies, Programs, and Practices for Multilingual Learners (Language and Literacy Series) - Softcover

García, Ofelia; Kleifgen, Jo Anne; Cervantes-Soon, Claudia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0807787388 ISBN 13: 9780807787380

Publisher: Teachers' College Press, 2025

Synopsis

This Third Edition of this now classic text offers up-to-date guidance for transforming policies and practices to improve the education of emergent bilinguals.

In this updated edition Ofelia García and Jo Anne Kleifgen are joined by Claudia Cervantes-Soon to bring forth a just vision for the education of language-minoritized students in the United States. The authors use accessible language to introduce policies programs research and practices to equitably educate these students.

This widely used textbook has been expanded to explore the potential of translanguaging and the promises and pitfalls of Artificial Intelligence. It also addresses the harmful role that colonialism and raciolinguistic ideologies play offering guidance for transforming policies and practices to improve the education of emergent bilinguals. Updated chapters consider the theoretical constructs empirical evidence and pedagogical practices related to the five most important aspects of the education of emergent bilinguals in K-12 classrooms: language and literacy considerations curriculum and pedagogy family and community engagement assessment and digital technologies and learning.

Readers will find innovative recommendations to help them imagine the possibilities and make changes that will transform education for some of the most disadvantaged students.

Book Features:

• Highlights the importance of leveraging all the linguistic and cultural practices of emergent bilinguals.
• Provides succinct descriptions of alternative practices for transforming our schools and students' futures.
• Uncovers the deleterious effects of not only colonialism but also capitalism patriarchy and racism.
• Considers the social cataclysms including a global pandemic that have affected minoritized communities as well as teachers and students.
• Explores the development of new technologies that are altering the ways in which we educate children.

About this title

About the Author

Ofelia García is professor emerita at The Graduate Center of The City University of New York. She received the 2024 Literacy Research Association Distinguished Scholar Lifetime Achievement Award.

Jo Anne Kleifgen is professor emerita of linguistics and education at Teachers College, Columbia University.

Claudia Cervantes-Soon is associate professor of bilingual/bicultural education at Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, Arizona State University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Teachers' College Press
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0807787388
• ISBN 13: 9780807787380
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 288