Day 5 of ‘Teaching a Language’ course

Milton Keynes’ Supplementary school teachers on Day 5 of ‘Teaching a Language in a Supplementary School’ (our latest accredited course)

For more information and to book the course for your teachers go to the NRCSE training page.

Suggested Book-List for Teaching a Language in a Supplementary School

• How Languages are Learned by Patsy M. Lightbown and Nina Spada, 4^th edition published by Oxford 2013
• Making Sense of a New World: Learning to read in a second language by Eve Gregory published by Paul Chapman 1996
• My Personal Language History edited by Roxy Harris and Fou-Fou Savitzky + ILEA student published by New Beacon Books 1988
• Negotiating Identities: Education for Empowerment in a Diverse Society by Jim Cummins published by California Association for Bilingual Education 1996

The following five academic books are only if you are really serious and have plenty of time to study! I do not have their publication date but they were all published by Multilingual Matters more than a decade ago.

• The Care and Education of Young Bilinguals: An Introduction for Professionals by Colin Baker
• Foundations of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism by Colin Baker
• Language, Power and Pedagogy- Bilingual Children in the Crossfire by Jim Cummins
• Reflections on Multi-Literate Lives by Belcher and Conner
• An Introductory Reader to the Writings of Jim Cummins ed by Colin Baker and Nancy Hornberger