ELTWeekly Issue#15, Book of the week: Teaching Content to English Language Learners

Teaching Content to English Language Learners 

By Jodi Reiss

Book Description

Teaching Content to English Language Learners, by Jodi Reiss, shows content-area teachers how to transform second-language learning theories into useful tools for ensuring the success of their ELL students. The book’s three parts present easy-to-incorporate techniques to make content more accessible, strengthen vocabulary, and increase student participation. The book offers: *practical strategies for building on common classroom techniques and activities to increase teaching effectiveness for language-learning students *techniques to recognize cultural differences, develop alternative assessments, and adapt written assignments and oral language for ELLs *abundant models, graphics, and authentic examples that show how to help students build content-area fluency as well as general language skills 

From the Back Cover

Teaching Content to English Language Learners, by Jodi Reiss, shows content-area teachers how to transform second-language learning theories into useful tools for ensuring the success of their ELL students. The book’s three parts present easy-to-incorporate techniques to make content more accessible, strengthen vocabulary, and increase student participation.

The book offers:

• practical strategies for building on common classroom techniques and activities to increase teaching effectiveness for language-learning students
• techniques to recognize cultural differences, develop alternative assessments, and adapt written assignments and oral language for ELLs
• abundant models, graphics, and authentic examples that show how to help students build content-area fluency as well as general language skills

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: Pearson ESL (November 26, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0131523570
• ISBN-13: 978-0131523579
• Price: $34.67

This book goes along the same line of those books that tell you pre-made recipes on how to teach language. All the techniques and strategies presented don’t take the student’s perspective into concern. They are mostly teacher-oriented and may work for some situations but not for a changing climate like the language classrooms.