Language Use in the Two-Way Classroom

Renée DePalma received her PhD in 2003 from the University of Delaware (USA), where she helped to establish La Red Mágica, a community-university collaborative project which aims to promote intercultural relationships between university students and minority children in a nearby urban community center. She is currently a Research Fellow at the University of Vigo, Spain. Her research over the years has focused on equalities and social justice in terms of race, ethnicity, language, sexuality and gender. She is mainly interested in the social construction of marginalization within and beyond schools, ways in which success and failure are co-constructed in institutional settings, and the design of counter-hegemonic institutional contexts and classroom practices.

• 1. The Promise and Realities of Two-Way Instruction (TWI)2. The Pragmatics of TWI Instruction: A Closer Look at What Really Happens3. From Teaching Philosophies to Classroom Design4. Making Sure They Don’t “Give it Away”: Keeping Spanish Alive5. Daily Rituals and Routines: Safety in the Familiar6. (Spanish) Language Arts: Participating in the Narrative7. Tables Time: Language in Activity8. Housekeeping and Blocks Centers: Keeping them Talking9. Implications: Real Practices behind the Ideal Model

The numerous rich examples of more and less effective strategies and practices within a variety of instructional contexts make this book essential reading for educators, parents, students and researchers interested in second language education. DePalma’s findings will have important implications for program design, interventions, curriculum and instructional practices in second language learning programs.