Search Results | VOCEDplus, the international tertiary education and research database

Guided Search / Expert Search

1997

Search found 1 item

Add to My selection

Assisting students from non-English speaking backgrounds: some questions primary school teachers frequently ask

The needs of students from non-English speaking backgrounds (NESB), especially learners new to the learning of Engl ... Show more
The needs of students from non-English speaking backgrounds (NESB), especially learners new to the learning of English, vary, but for all of them, there is one truth: they all have an enormous need to catch up - not usually cognitively, but in the language that is the medium of learning in our classrooms, in understanding the contexts within a new cultural experience, and in becoming comfortable with hitherto unfamiliar contexts and experiences. Show less

Authors: Van Hees, Jannie

Date: 1997

Geographic subjects: Oceania; New Zealand

Resource type: Article

Journal title: Many voices: a journal of new settlers and multicultural education issues

Subjects: Language; Teaching and learning; Skills and knowledge