Dialogue Journals in the Multilingual Classroom: Building Language Fluency and Writing Skills Through Written Interaction

ISBN-13: 9780893916602 Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic Publication date: 05/14/1996 Series: Writing Research Series Pages: 240 Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.63(d) This volume focuses on the use of dialogue jourbanals in classrooms with students from diverse language and cultural backgrounds whose proficiency with spoken and written English is limited. The companion volume to Dialogue Jourbanal Communication (Ablex, 1988), it carefully describes, from a teacher's experience, how dialogue jourbanal writing can be effectively implemented in the multilingual classroom, with practical tips for starting and maintaining the practice, exploiting the benefits, and avoiding the pitfalls. It presents a model of researchers working in close collaboration with teachers and shows the development in the jourbanals of individual students, with extended examples of student and teacher writing so that teachers can see research results that are not hopelessly extracted from the context in whi