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KEY BENEFIT: This book gives pre- and beginning in-service teachers a practical, comprehensive, objective look at dual language instruction and the social, political, historical, and educational issues of teaching second language learners in today’s diverse classrooms. KEY TOPICS: Demographics and the implications for schooling, understanding language and language development, dual language program models, primary language instruction for English learners, second language instruction, assessment, legal foundations, The characteristics of culture and the links between culture, schooling and achievement MARKET: Pre- and in-service teachers in multiculturally diverse classrooms