Second Language Acquisition / Literacy Development.

Audio Aspects of English Language Proficiency

   Learn about BICS and CALP, e-Lective Language Learning, or read the first chapter of Language, Power and Pedagogy.

  Claims and counter-claims about Reading, Academic Language, Pedagogy, and Assessment. Summary

   Dr. Jim Cummins has written and presented many works on second language learning and literacy development, including:

• Bilingual Children's Mother Tongue: Why Is It Important for Education?
• Language, Power and Pedagogy Ch. 1
• Research, Ethics, and Public Discourse: The Debate on Bilingual Education  
• Biliteracy, Empowerment, and Transformative Pedagogy
• BICS and CALP: Clarifying the Distinction
• The Ethics of Doublethink: Language Rights and the Bilingual Education Debate
• Education Research in Bilingual Education
• Putting Language Proficiency in Its Place: Responding to Critiques of the Conversational/Academic Language Distinction
• Bilingual Education in the United States: Power, Pedagogy, and Possibility  
• Rights and Responsibilities of Educators of Bilingual-Bicultural Children
• e-Lective Language Learning: Design of a Computer-Assisted Text-Based ESL/EFL Learning System
• “This Place Nurtures My Spirit:” Creating Contexts of Empowerment in Linguistically-Diverse Schools
• More Papers...