Yu Ren Dong is a professor in the Department of Secondary Education and Youth Services at Queens College, City University of New York.
In Unlocking the Power of Academic Vocabulary, Dong, a professor of
English at City University of New York, gives secondary teachers
the tools and the justification they may need to promote the
teaching of academic vocabulary in a pragmatic, yet appealing
way...Instead of relying on simplified synonyms to explain more
complicated words, Dong offers strategies, easy-to-integrate
activities, and tips on selecting words and planning lessons...This
approach to academic vocabulary instruction is long overdue
"turning what many consider to be a laborious process into an
engaging, skill-building mix that carries over into students'
reading, writing, thinking, and conversations...Dong provides
teachers of all subject areas with the tools and motivation to
enable their students to truly grasp the vocabulary that they not
only need but deserve. -Barbara Perdin, Language Magazine, May
2011-- "Language Magazine"
Yu Ren Dong argues that the successful delivery of lessons in
secondary content-area classes depends crucially on teaching
discipline-specific and general academic vocabulary. She provides a
rich variety of clear and creative examples to show how
content-area teachers can teach the vocabulary English language
learners need to succeed academically in secondary schools.- David
Freeman, Professor of Reading and ESL and Chair of Language,
Literacy, and Intercultural Studies, and Yvonne Freeman, Professor
of Bilingual Education, both at The University of Texas at
Brownsville-- "The University of Texas at Brownsville"
Yu Ren Dong's new book, Unlocking the Power of Academic Vocabulary
with Secondary English Language Learners, offers secondary teachers
practical tips designed to help teach ELLs academic vocabulary.
With discipline-specific examples for each academic area, Dong's
simple guide offers over 40 models teachers could use to create
their own vocabulary graphic organizers and activities. Based on
the argument that traditional vocabulary teaching is not reaching
many ELLs in mainstream secondary classrooms, Dong offers a wide
variety of examples to support teachers in increasing explicit
content area vocabulary teaching to help ELLs succeed...Several of
the graphic organizers, like the Word Root Diagram, Food Chain
Visualization, and Character Trait Organizer, are readily
applicable to secondary classrooms and will be helpful to
subject-area teachers looking for advice on giving ELLs extra
vocabulary support. Other suggestions will resonate with literature
and writing teachers. Many of the activities may also be suitable
in international settings; for example, in addition to the
activities in chapter one, there are several suggestions for
collocations organizers that might easily be applicable to
secondary lessons in any setting. In that way, there is a little
something for everyone in Dong's new book. -Amber N. Warren,
Indiana University, ESL Assembly News/NCTE (November 2011)-- "ESL
Assembly News/NCTE"
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