Resources
Publications
The Center for Applied Linguistics develops a variety of publications related to language education, linguistics, policy, cultural education, and more.
Our publications are described within this section and also cross-referenced under the appropriate topic areas for your convenience. We invite you to browse our complete list of publications. Click on a title below for a brief description. To learn more or to order, visit the CAL Store.
1972 Burundians
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A New Day: Refugee Families in the United States (video)
Access and Engagement: Program Design and Instructional Approaches for Immigrant Students in Secondary School
Adolescent Literacy Case: A Video Ethnography of Teaching Second Language Students (CD-Rom)
Adult Biliteracy in the United States
Adult English Language Instruction in the 21st Century
American Bilingual Tradition
American Voices: How Dialects Differ from Coast to Coast
An Unclouded Day: Stories and songs from Southern Appalachia (audio)
Aspire Curriculum
Assessing Success in Family Literacy and Adult ESL
Assessment Literacy Case (CD-Rom)
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The Banyamulenge Tutsi
Be Who You Are: Refugee Youth in the United States (video)
Becoming Bilingual in the Amigos Two-Way Immersion Program
BEST Literacy Test Manual
Bhutanese Refugees in Nepal
Bilingual Community Education and Multilingualism: Beyond Heritage Languages in a Global City
Bilingual/ESL Programs and Practices Case (video)
The Bilingual Edge: Why, When, and How to Teach Your Child a Second Language
The Bosnians: Their History and Culture
Broadening the Base: School/Community Partnerships Serving Language Minority Students at Risk
Building the Foreign Language Capacity We Need: Toward a Comprehensive
Strategy for a National Language Framework
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CAL Digest Series
The Carolina Brogue (video)
Chinese as a Heritage Language: Fostering Rooted World Citizenry
Collaborative Practices in Bilingual Cooperative Learning Classrooms
Computerized Oral Proficiency Instrument - Arabic and Spanish
Conflicts in World Culture
Connecting Diverse Cultures: A Video Guide for A New Day and Be Who You Are
Craig Cleveland Case (CD-Rom)
Creating Access: Language and Academic Programs for Secondary School Newcomers
Culture Profiles
Current Refugee Orientation Practices in U.S. Resettlement Agencies
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Designing Effective Activity Centers for Diverse Learners: A Guide for Teachers at All Grade Levels
Development of Bilingualism and Biliteracy From Grade 3 to 5: A Summary of Findings from the CAL/CREDE Study of Two-Way Immersion Education
Developing Literacy in Second-Language Learners:
Report of the National Literacy Panel on Language-Minority Children and Youth
Developing Reading and Writing in Second-Language Learners:
Lessons from the Report of the National Literacy Panel on Language-Minority Children and Youth
Dialect Resources: Talking NC
Dialects in Schools and Communities - Second Edition
Dual Language Program Planner: A Guide for Designing and Implementing Dual Language Programs
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Early Childhood Literacy Case (CD-Rom)
Ebonics: The Urban Education Debate, 2nd Edition
Educating English Language Learners: A Synthesis of Research Evidence
Educating Hispanic Students: Obstacles and Avenues to Improved Academic Achievement
Education for Adult English Language Learners in the United States
Education of Language Minority Immigrants in the United States
Educational Reform Implementation: A Co-Constructed Process
Educating Learners in Their Home Languages: Establishing and Maintaining Successful Programs
Effects of Instructional Conversations and Literature Logs on the Story Comprehension and Thematic Understanding of English Proficient and Limited English Proficient Students
Engaging Students in Reading Comprehension Using Instructional Conversation (video)
English Language Learners With Special Education Needs: Identification, Assessment, and Instruction
Enhancing English Language Learning in Elementary Classrooms
Enriching Content Classes for Secondary ESOL Students
Expanding Educational Opportunity in Linguistically Diverse Societies
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Fine in the World: Lumbee Language in Time and Place
The Five-Minute Linguist: Bite-Sized Essays on Language and Languages
Five Standards for Effective Pedagogy (CD-ROM Series)
Forbidden Language: English Learners and Restrictive Language Policies
Foreign Language Instruction in the United States: A National Survey of Elementary and Secondary Schools
Foreign Language Teaching in U.S. Schools: Results of a National Survey
Foreign Language Teaching: What the United States Can Learn from Other Countries
Foundations of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 5th Edition
From At-Risk to Excellence: Research, Theory, and Principles for Practice
From Spanish to English: Reading and Writing for English Language Learners
Kindergarten Through Third Grade
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A Guide to Culture in the Classroom (free PDF)
Guiding Principles for Dual Language Education, Second Edition
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The Haitians: Their History and Culture
Helping English Learners Succeed: An Overview of the SIOP Model (video)
Helping Newcomer Students Succeed in Secondary Schools and Beyond (PDF)
Heritage Language Education: A New Field Emerging
Heritage Languages in America: Preserving a National Resource (PDF)
The Hmong: An Introduction to Their History and Culture
Hoi Toide on the Outer Banks: The Story of the Okracoke Brogue
Hot Topics in ELL Education series
How to Integrate Language and Content Instruction: A Training Manual
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Immersion Education: Practices, Policies, Possibilities
Impact of Two-Way Bilingual Elementary Programs on Students' Attitudes Toward School and College
Implementing Educational Language Policy in Arizona: Legal, Historical and Current Practices in SEI
Implementing Two-Way Immersion Programs in Secondary Schools
Improving Education for English Learners: Research-Based Approaches
An Insider's Guide to SIOP Coaching
Into,Through, and Beyond Secondary School: Critical Transitions for Immigrant Youths
Instructional Conversations: Understanding Through Discussion (video)
Integrating Language and Content in Secondary School: Instructional Strategies and Thematic Units
Integrating Language and Culture in the Social Studies: Teacher Training Packet
The Iraqi Kurds: Their History and Culture
The Iraqis: Their History and Culture
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Julene Kendell Case (CD-Rom)
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The Kunama
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Language by Video: An Overview of Foreign Language Instructional Videos for Children
Language Diversity, School Learning, and Closing Achievement Gaps: A Workshop Summary
Leading for Diversity: How School Leaders Can Improve Interethnic Relations
Learners Lives as Curriculum: Six Journeys to Immigrant Literacy
Learning to Read Across Languages: Cross-Linguistic Relationships in First-and-Second-Language Literacy Development
Learning to Work in a New Land
Learning Together: Two-Way Bilingual Immersion Programs (video)
Lessons Learned: Model Early Foreign Language Programs
The Liberians: An Introduction to Their History and Culture
Linguistic Landscape in the City
Linguistic Reporter Collection
Listening and Speaking: Oral Language and Vocabulary Development for English Language Learners
Literacy and Language Diversity in the United States
Literacy, Work, and Education Reform
Lucia Villarreal Case (CD-Rom)
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Making Content Comprehensible for Elementary English Learners: The SIOP® Model
Making Content Comprehensible for English Learners: The SIOP® Model - 4th Edition
Making Content Comprehensible for Secondary English Learners: The SIOP® Model
Making Meaning, Making Change
Mara Mills Case (CD-Rom)
Math and Science: Skills and Strategies to Adapt Instruction for English Language Learners
Meeting the Challenge of Teaching Linguistically Diverse Students (video series)
The Meskhetian Turks: An Introduction to their History, Culture and Resettlement Experiences
Mountain Talk: A Journey to the Heart of Appalachia (video)
Multimedia Rater Training Program - Spanish, French, and German
Muslim Refugees in the United States: A Guide for Service Providers
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National Study of School Effectiveness for Language Minority Students' Long-Term Academic Achievement
Native Language Literacy Instruction for Adults: Patterns, Issues, and Promises
New Concepts for New Challenges: Professional Development for Teachers of Immigrant Youth
A New Day: Refugee Families in the United States (video)
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Ocracoke Speaks: The Distinct Sounds of the ‘Hoi Toide’ Brogue (audio)
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Pathways to Multilingualism: Evolving Perspectives on Immersion Education
Pedagogy Matters: Standards for Effective Teacher Practice
Pedagogy: Research and Practice
Personalizing Culture Through Anthropological and Educational Perspectives
Phrase Books (free PDFs)
Practitioner Toolkit: Working With Adult English Language Learners
Preparing for Success: A Guide to Teaching Adult English Language Learners
Proceedings of the First National Conference for Educators of Newcomer Students
Professional Development for Bilingual and ESL Paraprofessionals: The Aspire Curriculum
Profile of Effective Teaching in a Multilingual Classroom
Profile of Effective Two-Way Bilingual Teaching: Sixth Grade
Profiles in Two-Way Immersion Education
Program Alternatives for Linguistically Diverse Students
Protest and the American Revolution
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The Queen Family: Appalachian Tradition and Back Porch Music (video and audio)
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Reading and Adult English Language Learners: A Review of the Research
Realizing the Vision of Two-Way Immersion: Fostering Effective Programs and Classrooms
Redesigning English-Medium Classrooms: Using Research to Enhance English Learner Achievement
Reflective Writing: A Way to Lifelong Teacher Learning (free PDF)
Refugees Families & Refugee Youth Videos and Companion Facilitator's Guide
Refugees from Burma: Their Backgrounds and Refugee Experiences
Refugees from Iraq
Review of Research on Educational Resilience
The Road Less Traveled: Three Films by the NC Language and Life Project (video)
Role of Classroom Assessment in Teaching and Learning
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Scaling Up School Restructuring in Multicultural, Multilingual Contexts
Second Language Acquisition Case (CD-Rom)
Second Language Literacy Case (CD-Rom)
Secondary School Newcomer Programs in the United States
Sheri Galarza Pre-School Case (CD-Rom)
SIOP in Action: Instructional Videos Featuring Complete SIOP Lessons at Three Grade Levels (video and guide)
SIOP Model Digest Series
The SIOP® Model for Administrators
SIOP Model: Sheltered Instruction for Academic Achievement (video)
Sociolinguistic Variation: Theories, Methods and Applications
The Somali Bantu: Their History and Culture
The Somalis: Their History and Culture
SOPI Test Development Handbook
Spanish Voices: Spanish and English in the Southeastern United States (video)
Studies in Native American Education: Improving Education for Zuni Children
Successful Transition into Mainstream English: Effective Strategies for Studying Literature
Sustaining Linguistic Diversity: Endangered and Minority Languages and Language Varieties
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Teaching Alive for the 21st Century in Elementary Settings (CD-Rom)
Teaching Vocabulary to English Language Learners
This Side of the River: Self-determination and Survival in the Oldest Black Town in America (video)
Through the Golden Door: Educational Approaches for Immigrant Adolescents With Limited Schooling
Two-Way Immersion 101: Designing and Implementing a Two-Way Immersion Education Program at the Elementary School Level
Two-Way Immersion (TWI) Package
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An Unclouded Day: Stories and Songs from Southern Appalachia (audio)
Using the SIOP Model: Professional Development Manual for Sheltered Instruction
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Vocational Classroom: A Great Place to Learn English
Voices of North Carolina: Language, Dialect, and Identity in the Tarheel State (video)
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Ways With Words: Language, Life, and Work in Communities and Classrooms
Welcome to the United States: A Guidebook for Refugees
Welcome to the United States: Refugee Orientation Videos/DVDs
What's Different About Teaching Reading to Students Learning English?
What Teachers Need to Know About Language
Why, How, and When Should My Child Learn a Second Language?
Why Reading Is Hard
Why Start and Maintain an SNS Program?
Words at Work and Play: Three Decades in Family and Community Life
Words Were All We Had: Becoming Biliterate Against the Odds
Working Together to Build a Multilingual Society
Workplace ESL Instruction: Interviews From the Field
Writing Our Lives: Reflections on Dialogue Journal Writing With Adults Learning English
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