Are we, and to what extent, teaching ESL/Content-based curriculum within a Bilingual/Multicultural paradigm?

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Are we, and to what extent, teaching
ESL/Content-based curriculum within a
Bilingual/Multicultural paradigm?
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• Assimilation vis-à-vis Acculturation

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• Macro-acquisition
• Micro-acquisition

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• A Speech Community Model of Bilingual Education
  Educating Latino Newcomers in the USA

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• Traditional individual models of SLA have ignored
  three factors that have been recently shown to be
  the most important in learning a second language
• The role that communities of practice play in
  providing positions for participants SL practices
• The complex ways in which learning and speaking a
  second language engages speakers social
  identities
• The way power relations influence linguistic
  interaction

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• Content-based example
• The integration of a mainstream sociological
  intro. course embedded within a bilingual and
  multicultural sociocultural paradigm
• Draws upon cultural conventions needed for
  acculturation in both new culture and culture of
  the future workplace culture

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• Slide 1