3. SLA Research and Arizona’s Structured English Immersion Policies

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Contributors vii
4. Foreword: From Restrictive SEI to Imagining Better xiii
5. Introduction xxiii
6. Part 1: Language Policy in Arizona
7. 1. Language Policy and Teacher Preparation: The Implications of a Restrictive Language Policy on Teacher Preparation 2
8. 2. Research-based Reform in Arizona: Whose Evidence Counts for Applying the Castañeda Test to Structured English Immersion Models? 20
9. 3. SLA Research and Arizona’s Structured English Immersion Policies 38
10. Part 2: Implementing SEI in Arizona
11. 4. Everything on Its Head: How Arizona’s Structured English Immersion Policy Re-invents Theory and Practice 58
12. 5. Teachers’ Sheltered English Immersion Views and Practices 85
13. 6. Review of ‘Research Summary and Bibliography for Structured English Immersion Programs’ of the Arizona English Language Learners Task Force 106
14. Part 3: Arizona Teacher Preparation for SEI
15. 7. ‘They’re Just Confused’: SEI as Policy into Practice 119
16. 8. Implementing Structured English Immersion in Teacher Preparation in Arizona 140
17. 9. The Politics of Preservice Teachers 162