Multilingual Education in Practice: Using Diversity As a Resource

Eleven Canadian school-based practitioners and university-based researchers report findings from a recent school-community-university collaborative project situated in two schools in Ontario Province serving ethnically, racially, and linguistically diverse student populations. The study explores issues relevant to children's development and use of language, and offers concrete suggestions for creating and implementing an inclusive and effective curriculum for ESL students. No subject index. Annotation c2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

SANDRA R. SCHECTER teaches in the Faculty of Education at York University, Toronto. Her research focuses on the development of bilingual and biliterate identities in individuals and families and on the dynamics of bilingual communities. She has published extensively in the areas of language teaching and learning, language planning, and language socialization. She is the author of the ESL/EFL textbook, Listening Tasks.JIM CUMMINS teaches in the Department of Curriculum, Teaching, and Learning at the University of Toronto. His research focuses on the nature of language proficiency and second-language acquisition. He is the coauthor of Scott Foresman ESL: Accelerating English Language Learning, among many other publications.