Teaching Multilingual Students Through Culture and Language: An Elementary Teacher's Guide to Self-Discovery Using Semiotics - Paperback

by Tala Michelle Karkar-Esperat (Author)

This is a professional development guide designed for elementary school teachers to help them center multilingual and bilingual students' language and culture in the classroom by recognizing and harnessing their students' assets through semiotics (the study of signs using multiliteracies) and self-discovery.

Author Biography

Tala Michelle Karkar-Esperat is Assistant Professor of Curriculum and Instruction in the College of Education and Technology at Eastern New Mexico University. Her research is focused on preservice teachers' literacies, online literacies, coaching of teachers, and pedagogical literacy practices through multiliteracies, new literacies, and semiotics.