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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED336956 AUTHOR: Malave, Lilliam M., Ed.


TITLE: Theory, Research, and Applications: Selected Papers
from the Annual Meeting of the National Association for
Bilingual Education (16th, Denver, Colorado, March 30-April
3, 1987).

YEAR PUBLISHED: 1988
NOTE: 275 p.; For individual papers, see FL 019 512-531.
AVAILABILITY: National Dissemination Center, Fall River
Public Schools, 417 Rock St., Fall River, MA 02720.

ABSTRACT: Papers in this volume include the following: "The
Theoretical Framework of Jim Cummins: A Review and
Critique"; "The Development of Bilingual Behavior";
"Effective Schools Research and Language Instruction
Programs"; "Reading and Writing Instruction in Three
Bilingual Education Programs in Connecticut";
"Instructional Discourse in an Effective Kindergarten
Classroom: A Case Study"; "Ecobehavioral Variables within
a Classroom with Limited-English Proficient Students";
"Creative Reading: A Relevant Methodology for Language
Minority Children"; "Teachers' Perceptions of Errors in
Second Language Learning and Acquisition"; "Testing the
Transfer Paradigm in Second Language Learning: The Case of
Spelling Skills"; "Conducting and Evaluating Oral Tests in
the Second Language Classroom"; "The Competency Testing
Mine Field: Validation, Legal and Ethical Issues with
Implications for Minorities"; "How Can We Meet All Their
Needs? Incorporating Education for the Gifted and Talented
in the Multicultural Classroom"; "Comparisons of
Acculturation and Education Characteristics
of Referred and Non-Referred Culturally and Linguistically
Different Children"; "'It's Only Half of Me.' The
Interracial Child: The Need for Balance"; "School Holding
Power in the U.S."; "Retention of the Latino University
Student: Affirmative Action at CSULB"; "Some Research-Based
Issues and Recommendations Expressed at the Seminario
Internacional Sobre la Educacion Bilingue"; "Culture and
the French Canadian: A Question of Survival"; "Cultural
Differences or Disability: Redefining the Experience of
Four Hmong Students"; and "Hmong Refugees and Educational
Policy." (MSE)

KEY DESCRIPTORS: Acculturation-; Case-Studies; Cultural
Context; Educational-Policy; Educational-Research;
Elementary-Secondary-Education; Error-Patterns; French
Canadians; Gifted-; Higher-Education; Hispanic-Americans;
Hmong-People; Kindergarten-; Language-Tests; Minority
Groups; Multicultural-Education; Reading-Instruction;
Referral-; Second-Language-Learning; Spelling-Instruction;
Teacher-Attitudes; Transfer-of-Training;
Writing-Instruction

KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Bilingual-Education; *Language-Role;
*Limited-English-Speaking; *Testing-

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