Are we, and to what extent, teaching ESL/Content-based curriculum within a

Bilingual/Multicultural paradigm?

Assimilation vis-à-vis Acculturation

Macro-acquisition Micro-acquisition

A Speech Community Model of Bilingual Education: Educating Latino Newcomers in the USA

Traditional individual models of SLA have ignored three factors that have been recently shown to be the most important in learning a second language:

The role that communities of practice play in providing positions for participants SL practices

The complex ways in which learning and speaking a second language engages speakers’ social identities

The way power relations influence linguistic interaction

Content-based example: The integration of a mainstream sociological intro. course embedded within a bilingual and multicultural sociocultural paradigm:

Draws upon cultural conventions needed for acculturation in both new culture and culture of the future workplace culture

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