Literacy, Vocabulary, and Acculturation: A Critical Education Triangle for English Language Learners - Hardcover

by Ashraf Esmail (Editor), Abul Pitre (Editor), Alice Duhon-Ross McCallum (Editor)

The recent increase in immigration patterns in the United States has meant an increase in the number of children whose first language is not English entering American schools. Some reports indicate that as many as one in four students come from families where the language spoken in the home is not English. This book is focused on providing teachers access to credible information that will assist them understand the English language learner, develop effective strategies to teach English language learners, create effective learning environments and use assessments to meet the needs of English language learners as well as garner community resources to support for English language learners.

Author Biography

Ashraf Esmail is an Associate Professor and Program Coordinator of Criminal Justice at Dillard University. He is the Director for the Center for Racial Justice and Barron Hilton Criminal Justice Endowed Professor.

Abul Pitre is Professor and Department Chair of Africana Studies at San Francisco State University. He was appointed Edinboro University's first named professor for his outstanding work in African American education and held the distinguished title of Carter G. Woodson Professor of Education.

Alice Duhon Ross is a core faculty for the Richard W. Riley College of Education at Walden University. Current research focus is multicultural, international, peace education. She is a career educator with over 30 years of teaching in higher education and is Nationally Board-Certified Counselor and National Board-Certified School Counselor.

Judith Blakely serves in the role of Academic Coordinator at Walden University and works to serve a vital role in maximizing student achievement by incorporating leadership, advocacy, and collaboration. She is certified in multiple states as a School Superintendent, School Administrator (pre-K-12 principal), and Director of Special, Bilingual, and Gifted Education.

H. Prentice Baptiste, is a Regents and Distinguished Achievement Professor, and in 2014 was awarded the first College of Education, Diversity Award at New Mexico State University, in Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA. He was President (2016 to 2018) of the National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME), a premier organization advocating for equity and social justice, which he helped found in 1990.