A general introduction to bilingualism, bilingual education, and minority education in the United States, and an ethnographic/discourse analytic study of how one "successful" dual-language programme challenges mainstream US educational progammes that discriminate against minority students and the languages they speak. Implications for research practice and practice in other school and community contexts are emphasized.
This book bridges the gap between the overly simplistic self-help type book and the more academic research-based one. For students, this will introduce research without overwhelming.
The Academics' Guide to Publishing (Sage Study Skills Series)
This definitive guide to successfully publishing social science research demonstrates that completing a project is only the first phase of research. Dissemination is the second phase, and it requires specific skills and knowledge. The Academics' Guide to Publishing: explains the different ways in which research can be disseminated: in journals, books, reports, the Internet, popular media, and conferences; demonstrates how the structures, practices and procedures involved work - making them easily understood and transparent; and situates research in the larger and changing context of Higher Education.
Nature Magazine Volume 475- July 21st 2011Nature, first published on 4 November 1869, is the world's most cited interdisciplinary science journal. Most scientific journals are now highly specialized, and Nature is among the few journals (the other weekly journals Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences are also prominent examples) that still publish original research articles across a wide range of scientific fields. There are many fields of scientific research in which important new advances and original research are published as either articles or letters in Nature.
Cognitive LinguisticsAn Interdisciplinary Journal of Cognitive Science 2009 Vol.20
Cognitive Linguistics presents a forum for linguistic research of all kinds on the interaction between language and cognition. Cognitive Linguistics focuses on language as an instrument for organizing, processing and conveying information, and the journal is devoted to high-quality research
