Web Links

Learning Communities

For a look at a virtual learning community devoted to the environment, see the Integrated Learning Garden at Maricopa Community Colleges http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/ilc/index.html

For characteristics of a learning community, which this site calls "engaged learning," see "Meaningful Engaged Learning" on the web site of the North Central Regional Educational Laboratory (NCREL) http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/engaged.htm

Educating for Democracy

For a check list of characteristics of a school that educates for democracy, see the article, "Educating for Democracy: School and Classroom Practices," on the NCREL web site http://www.ncrel.org/cscd/pubs/lead41/41check.htm

George Wood, author of Schools That Work, offers his rationale for democratic classrooms at http://www.ncte.org/pdfs/members-only/pv/0072-oct98/PV0072Educating.pdf

Deborah Meier, "Educating a Democracy" http://bostonreview.mit.edu/BR24.6/meier.html

Accents and Dialects

For more information on accents and dialects, see the following: "Understanding Accents and Dialects" http://www.superduperinc.com/newsletters/05_dialects_accents.pdf

For sound recordings of various accents and dialects in the United States, see International Dialects of the English Language at http://www.ku.edu/~idea/ and American English Speech samples at http://www.uta.fi/FAST/US8/REF/samples.html

Code-switching

For more information on the concepts of interlanguage and code-switching in bilingual speakers, see "Toward A Better Understanding Of Code Switching And Interlanguage In Bilinguality: Implications For Bilingual Instruction" by Luisa Duran at http://www.ncbe.gwu.edu/miscpubs/jeilms/vol14/duran.htm

Sign Language

There is much information about American Sign Language on the Web. Three very good sites are the following:

"American Sign Language as a Foreign Language," by Sherman Wilcox, at http://www.unm.edu/~wilcox/ASLFL/asl_fl.html

American Sign Language Dictionary Online (includes video clips of hand signing) http://dww.deafworldweb.org/asl/

American Sign Language Fingerspelling at http://where.com/scott.net/asl/

Nonverbal Communication

For more information on nonverbal communication, see the following:

Exploring Nonverbal Communication (with a section on cross-cultural nonverbal communication) at http://nonverbal.ucsc.edu/

Learning Styles

For more information on the concepts of field dependence and field independence, see

"Field Dependence – Independence" at http://www.uts.edu.au/fac/edu/rcvet/working%20papers/0051Pithers.pdf

"Visual Perception," by Daniel Chandler at http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Modules/TF12710/visper04.html

Multiple Intelligences

Two excellent overviews of learning styles and multiple intelligences can be found at

"Multiple Intelligences" http://www.rockyview.ab.ca/cis/intell.htm

"Seven Styles of Learning," by Elaine Winters http://www.bena.com/ewinters/styles.html

History of Bilingual Education

For more information on the history of bilingual education, see "History of Bilingual Education at http://www.rethinkingschools.org/Archives/12_03/langhst.htm

Bililngual Education Legislation and Court Cases

For more information on some of the laws and court cases that laid the foundation for and tested the efficacy of bilingual education, see the following:

Lau v. Nichols [1974] http://www.englishfirst.org/be/lau.htm

Plyler v. Doe [1982] http://laws.findlaw.com/us/457/202.html

Billingual Education Act (1968) and Castenada v. Pickard [1981] http://www.jefferson.k12.ky.us/Programs/ESL/NewFiles/Legalrequirements.html

Responses to Bilingual Education Programs

For a good representation of the arguments against bilingual education, see "The Case Against Bilingual Education" http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/98may/biling.htm

The Oakland Ebonics Controversy

For the text of the original Oakland Resolution on Ebonics, seehttp://www.emich.edu/~linguist/topics/ebonics/ebonics-res1.html

For a discussion of the controversy about the Oakland case, see CNN Interactive at http://www.cnn.com/US/9612/19/black.english/index.html

For the text of the revised Oakland Resolution on Ebonics, see http://www.linguistlist.org/issues/8/8-56.html#1

Bilingual Education Backlash

For an idea of the debate on Proposition 227 in California and proposed or passed initiatives in other states, see

In favor of the proposition http://www.onenation.org/

Against the initiatives http://coe.sdsu.edu/people/jmora/Prop227PPT/Default.htm

and http://brj.asu.edu/archives/1v21/articles/Issue1Crawford.html