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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