Supporting Emergent Multilingual Learners in Science

Molly Weinburgh

ISBN 10: 1681404818 / ISBN 13: 9781681404813

Published by National Science Teachers Association, US, 2019

About this Item

Here's the resource you need to combine middle and high school science content with down-to-earth help for emergent multilingual learners-students learning science as well as English. Based on solid research findings, this book shows you how to put into practice the 5R Instructional Model: Replace, Reveal, Repeat, Reposition, and Reload. The model provides a framework for creating instructional strategies that offer authentic language-learning opportunities within your inquiry-based science classroom.Supporting Emergent Multilingual Learners in Science starts with useful context about the need for a special approach to integrating science and language. Then it moves from theory to practice by focusing on each of the five Rs and showing how they play out in particular scenarios. Finally, a chapter called "Voices From Teachers" lets you learn from colleagues who've used the 5R model as a tool to develop science lessons in actual classrooms. The authors of Supporting Emergent Multilingual Learners in Science have diverse backgrounds in science, mathematics, and bilingual education. Drawing on the overlap they've discovered among these areas, they show how you can reduce conflicts and enhance connections between inquiry teaching and language instruction.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Supporting Emergent Multilingual Learners in Science
• Publisher: National Science Teachers Association, US
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1681404818
• ISBN 13: 9781681404813
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 405 grams

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Synopsis

Many middle and high school teachers are educated to teach science content―they don’t anticipate that one day they may be teaching it to students who need to learn both content and English. If the day has come when you’re facing that two-pronged challenge, here’s the resource you need. Supporting Emergent Multilingual Learners in Science combines science-teaching strategies with down-to-earth help for emergent multilingual learners (EMLs). Grounded in solid research, this book shows you how to put into practice the 5R Instructional Model: Replace, Reveal, Repeat, Reposition, and Reload. It’s a framework for creating instructional strategies that provide authentic language-learning opportunities within your inquiry-based science classroom. The book begins by laying out the need for a special approach to integrating science and language and also outlines the 5R model. It then moves from theory to practice by focusing on each of the five Rs and showing how they play out in specific situations. The book ends with “Voices From Teachers,” offering examples from actual classrooms so you can learn from experienced colleagues how the 5R model works as a tool to develop science lessons. The authors of Supporting Emergent Multilingual Learners in Science have diverse backgrounds in science, mathematics, and bilingual education. Drawing on the intersection of these areas, they show how you can reduce conflicts and enhance connections between inquiry teaching and language instruction. The authors know, as they write in the book’s introduction, that “regardless of your background and current teaching assignment, you are interested in helping EMLs become successful.”

About the Author

Molly Weinburgh, Andrews Chair of Mathematic and Science Education, is the director of the Andrews Institute of Mathematics and Science Education at Texas Christian University. Her scholarship focuses on academic language acquisition and conceptual understanding in science by emerging multilingual students. She served as co-editor of Science Teacher Preparation in Content-Based Second Language Acquisition (Oliveira and Weinburgh 2017) and was coauthor of a chapter outlining the 5R Instructional Model in The Handbook of Educational Theories (Weinburgh and Silva 2013).