BILINGUALISM IN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOLS by Maurice Carder ( 9781853599408 )

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Title:

BILINGUALISM IN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOLS
A MODEL FOR ENRICHING LANGUAGE EDUCATION

By:

Maurice Carder

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1853599409

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CHANNEL VIEW PUBLICATIONS LTD

Pub. date:

10 January, 2007

Series:

Parents' and Teachers' Guides

Pages:

224

Description:

This book presents a model for instructing bilingual students in International Schools across the curriculum. In such schools there is now a majority of second language learners, and Carder presents a three-programme model which will provide content-based English-language skills, appropriate staff training, and develop students' mother tongues.

Synopsis:

International Schools have developed since their inception from a largely native English-speaking student body to schools such as the author's, the Vienna International School (VIS), where there are students of 90 nationalities with 65 mother tongues. Maurice Carder proposes a "three-programme model" for addressing the language and curricula needs of these students: a content-based second language programme; a programme of cultural and linguistic training for all staff; and a mother tongue programme for minority students. The model is based on research findings and practice: at the VIS every year approximately 1/3 of the graduating students gain an IB Diploma (International Baccalaureate) because they are able to take their mother tongue (other than English or German) as Language A1. The book contains insightful chapters not only for school leaders, programme designers and teachers, but also for parents. Inserted boxes of student responses give an authentic voice to the needs of second language learners, and many useful resources and websites are given.

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Multilingual Matters

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