Teaching and Learning in a Multilingual School : Choices, Risks, and Dilemmas (Hardcover)

Contents: S. Nieto, Series Editor Foreword. Contents: Preface. Introduction: Bilingual Life and Language Choice of Northside. Part I: Dilemmas of Speech and Silence. Accepting and Legitimizing Multilingualism. Promoting and Legitimizing English. Responding to Silence. Part II: Dilemmas of Discrimination. Resisting Anti-Immigrant Discourses and Linguicism. Oral Presentations, Accent Discrimination and Linguistic Privilege. Conclusion: Challenging Linguistic Inequities in Multilingual School Communities. Appendices: Hong Kong, Canada. Critical Educational Ethnography in Postmodern Times. J. Ngan, Developing Oral Presentation Skills.