This valuable book addresses the common problems faced by speech‑language pathologists, offering solutions and strategies for more effective service delivery.

Stephanie LoPresti introduces ‘The Protocol,’ a child development‑based approach that merges principles from developmental psychology and speech‑language pathology. The book covers a wide range of speech and language issues, including receptive, expressive, pragmatic, feeding, and play development, making it a versatile resource for clinicians. It is designed to be easy to use, with movable elements that adapt to a child’s progress from short‑ to long‑term milestones and goals. It emphasizes the concept of the zone of proximal development, ensuring that clinicians work with clients just above their current level of functioning, leading to meaningful progress.

Accompanied by downloadable worksheets to assess progress, it will be an essential resource for all speech and language pathologists, particularly those working with young children. It will also be useful to students and educators in the field of speech‑language pathology seeking evidence‑based strategies for working with clients, as well as healthcare professionals, researchers, and educators interested in child development and language acquisition.

Bilingual education is usually framed as a tool of antiracism. In Becoming the System, author Nelson Flores challenges that framework by examining the ways that institutionalizing bilingual education in the post-Civil Rights Era in the United States has served to maintain rather than challenge racial hierarchies. He adopts a methodology that he terms raciolinguistic genealogy as a point of entry for arguing that the institutionalization of bilingual education was part of a broader reconfiguration of race in the postcolonial era. This reconfiguration located the root of racial inequities within a psychologically damaged racialized subject who, after having experienced multiple generations of racial oppression, had either from a liberal perspective developed a culture of poverty or a radical perspective developed colonized mindset that prevented racial progress. After examining the ways that this psychologically damaged racialized subject provided the ideological foundation for the Bilingual Education Act (BEA), Flores then examines how institutionalizing the BEA produced a cadre of Latinx professionals who were afforded contingent proximity to whiteness in exchange for their acceptance of deficit framings of Latinx communities.

He goes on to examine the ways that this institutionalization helped pave the way for neoliberal educational reforms that serve to maintain the racial status quo. This has culminated in the exponential growth of dual language education as a commodity for affluent monolingual white families even as the bilingualism of Latinx communities continue to be pathologized and policed. Flores concludes by implicating himself as a Latinx professional working in bilingual education in this political incorporation and posits the present volume as resistance to the commodification and weaponization of Latinx bilingualism.

Nesta monografía de naturaleza sociolingüística tracéxase, a través da mocidade da Limia Baixa, a situación actual da súa lingua mais as actitudes e prexuízos que afloran nesta comunidade.
A Limia Baixa é unha área situada ao soroeste da provincia de Ourense que linda con Portugal polo sur e polo oeste. O seu galego presenta unha situación particular, xa que existe un panorama lingüístico dominado polo monolingüismo na súa variedade dialectal baixolimega en todos os ámbitos e niveis da vida. O contacto co galego estándar, co español e co portugués inflúe na existencia, mantemento ou retroceso dos seus trazos dialectais e, por suposto, nas actitudes que os falantes teñen debido a esta situación.

Many books have been written on the topic of second language assessment, but few are easily accessible for both students and practicing language teachers. This textbook provides an up-to-date and engaging introduction to this topic, using anecdotal and real-world examples to illustrate key concepts and principles. It seamlessly connects qualitative and quantitative approaches and the use of technologies, including generative AI, to language assessment development and analysis for students with little background in these areas. Hands-on activities, exercises, and discussion questions provide opportunities for application and reflection, and the inclusion of additional resources and detailed appendices cements understanding. Ancillary resources are available including datasets and videos for students, PowerPoint teaching slides and a teacher's guide for instructors. Packed with pedagogy, this is an invaluable resource for both first and second language speakers of English, students on applied linguistics or teacher education courses, and practicing teachers of any language.

This book offers an in-depth look at early years education, recognizing the pivotal role of early education in shaping individual development. The central argument of this collective work is that multilingual pedagogies are not only beneficial but essential for promoting holistic learning experiences during a child’s formative years. The book advocates for a paradigm shift in early education, emphasizing the importance of equipping educators with the skills to handle diverse linguistic classrooms. Titled "Multilingual Pedagogies for Early Years: Theoretical Insights and Innovative Approaches," it offers theoretical insights and innovative methods beyond traditional educational boundaries. The book provides a roadmap to foster environments that celebrate linguistic diversity, making it a valuable resource for educators and researchers.

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