Adding English: A Guide to Teaching in Multilingual Classrooms

By Elizabeth Coehlo and Elizabeth Coelho

Whether you are a student teacher just beginning to explore English language teaching, an ESL teacher, or a seasoned classroom teacher integrating second language learners into a mainstream K-12 program, Adding English: A Guide to Teaching in Multilingual Classrooms is a comprehensive source of ideas of advice for enhancing the learning of all students in all subject areas and at all grade levels. In Adding English, Elizabeth Coelho sets out exemplary practices and practical strategies to help you ensure that newcomers feel welcome and supported in your multilingual school and classroom understand the challenges faced by those who are adding English to their repertoire of languages develop your knowledge of the basics of English so that you can support language learners more effectively provide content-based language instruction geared to the needs of English language learners organize a program and plan lessons that meet the needs of all students plan assessment and evaluation activities that take into account the needs of second language learners Presented in a clear, understandable, and highly readable style, the teaching solutions offered in Adding English make it an essential and welcome resource, one that has quickly established itself as a core text in many courses for ESL teachers.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0887510957
• ISBN13: 9780887510953
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Pippin Publishing
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 1.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 9.0" x 10.5"

Customer Reviews

Full of great ideas

This is a wonderful book-- very clear and full of practical ideas for the classroom. Lots of tips on how to build on students' first language skills and experiences in order to help them learn English and become a part of the school community. Several chapters on how English works. Ideas on how to assess students' language and literacy levels when they first arrive and how to evaluate their language production as their skills develop. I wish I had had this book when I first started teaching!

Lots of information presented in an easily read format

This book is perhaps one of the best ESL books I've come across recenlty. It is easy to read and understand. It is practical and it gives lots of great suggestions without sounding pompous or preachy. The book would make a suitable textbook for those studying to be an ESL teacher, or a good reference for those who are already an ESL teacher. The book is divided into clear chapters, giving the reader some practical hints on how to welcome a newcomer into the class, and how to create an inclusive classroom. The book then goes into how English works, often citing and detailing the famous experts of language acquisition like Krashen, Cummins, Mohan and Swain just to name a few. Coelho also gives the reader ideas on how to integrate languge and content instruction, and finally, she goes into assessment options. The book is full of pictures and cartoons, with sidebar hints and cautions, as well as an annotated reference section at the end of each chapter. A very practical and useful book.