I. Early language experience and school readiness. The brain and language acquisition: variation in language knowledge and readiness for education / Barbara T. Conboy
The process of acquiring a first and second language / Kathryn Kohnert and Giang Pham
Language choice and competence: code switching and issues of social identity in young bilingual children / Iliana Reyes and Susan Ervin-Tripp
II. Language and literacy principles and practices in school. Ways to words: learning a second-language vocabulary / Lisa M. Bedore, Elizabeth D. Peña, and Karin Boerger
The role of phonology in orthographically different languages / Ellen H. Newman
Bilingualism and cognitive linkages: learning to read in different languages / Ellen Bialystok and Kathleen F. Peets
Learning English as a second language / María Estela Brisk
III. Assessment and interaction: working with children and families. Communicative repertoires and English language learners / Betsy Rymes
Difficulty, delay, or disorder: what makes English hard for English language learners? / Carol Westby and Deborah Hwa-Froelich
Implications for assessment and instruction / Alison L. Bailey
Extended implications for practice: families as allies / Leslie Reese and Claude Goldenberg
Recent research on English language and literacy instruction: what we have learned to guide practice for English language learners in the 21st century / Diane August, Claude Goldenberg, William M. Saunders, and Cheryl Dressler.
