Dialogue Journals in the Multilingual Classroom: Building Language Fluency and Writing Skills Through Written Interaction

by Jana Staton and Joy Kreeft Peyton

This volume focuses on the use of dialogue journals in classrooms with students from diverse language and cultural backgrounds whose proficiency with spoken and written English is limited. The companion volume to Dialogue Journal Communication (Ablex, 1988), it carefully describes, from a teacher's experience, how dialogue journal writing can be effectively implemented in the multilingual classroom, with practical tips for starting and maintaining...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0893916609
• ISBN13: 9780893916602
• Release Date: May 1996
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.4"