The purpose of this book is to guide teachers to understand theory
related to teaching multilingual students and put it into practice in
their classrooms. Throughout each chapter, the authors uniquely bring
together relevant theory regarding language (e.g. the multilingual turn,
second language acquisition, translanguaging) literacy (e.g. reading
comprehension, new literacy studies, multimodality), and culture (e.g.
funds of knowledge, culturally sustaining pedagogies). The chapter
authors (practicing ESL, bilingual, world language, language immersion,
and mainstream teachers) share how they are innovatively teaching
multilingual students by understanding theory and applying it to their
instructional setting.
The audience for this book is teachers of multilingual students who are
in the dynamic process of language acquisition. This includes TESOL/ESL,
bilingual, language immersion, and world language teachers, as well as
mainstream teachers who teach bilingual students-essentially all
educators in modern society. The book is of particular interest for
teacher education programs since each chapter explains theory and then
illustrates exactly how one teacher put that theory into practice in
teaching multilingual students.