Language, Power and Pedagogy: Bilingual Children in the Crossfire
@inproceedings{Cummins2000LanguagePA,
title={Language, Power and Pedagogy: Bilingual Children in the Crossfire},
author={Jim Cummins},
year={2000}
}Part 1 Theory as dialogue: issues and contexts language interaction in the classroom - from coercive to collaborative relations of power. Part 2 The nature of language proficiency: language proficiency in academic contexts critiques of the conversational/academic language proficiency distinction assessing second language proficiency among adults dilemmas of inclusion. Part 3 From bilingual education to transformative pedagogy: the threshold and interdependence hypotheses revisited research…
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