The Work of Language in Multicultural Classrooms: Talking Science, Writing Science

Book Overview

How does language comprise the implicit or explicit curriculum of teaching and learning in multicultural science settings? Building on a growing interest in the ways in which language and literacy practices interact with science teaching and learning to facilitate or obstruct successful student outcomes, this book contributes to scholarship on the role of language in developing classroom scientific communities of practice, expands that work by...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805864288
• ISBN13: 9780805864281
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"