Expanding Definitions of Giftedness: The Case of Young Interpreters From Immigrant Communities: Educational Psychology Series
Autor Guadalupe Valdesen Limba Engleză Paperback – feb 2003
The authors' purpose in this volume is to contribute to extending current definitions of gifted and talented, by proposing and offering evidence that the young people who are selected to serve as family interpreters perform at remarkably high levels of accomplishment when compared with others of their age, experience, and environment, and should thus clearly be included in the 1993 U.S. federal definition of giftedness.
They maintain that not only are these capabilities currently overlooked by existing assessment procedures, but also that there is little understanding of the ways in which the unique talents of young interpreters might be nurtured and developed in academic settings.
A strong case is made that in order for such students to be identified as gifted on the basis of their bilingual abilities, the field of gifted and talented education must embrace the concept that bilingualism is a strength. The field must also make developing bilingualism a focus of programs designed to meet the needs of the increasingly multilingual student population in the United States.
The research this book reports--part of a larger five-year study of giftedness through linguistic and cultural lenses, funded by OERI through the National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented--was conducted by researchers whose background is very much outside the field of gifted education. Rather, their focus is on language, working within the traditions of qualitative sociolinguistics. Thus, this book offers a unique approach to the exploration of giftedness. It asks researchers and practitioners ordinarily accustomed to working with quantitative data to examine and make sense of detailed and rich analyses of students' linguistic performance, and argues that it is only by understanding the challenges of such bilingual interactions that the field of gifted and talented education can expand and reframe its vision of giftedness.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780805840513
ISBN-10: 0805840516
Pagini: 252
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.47 kg
Ediția:Parental Adviso.
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Educational Psychology Series
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0805840516
Pagini: 252
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.47 kg
Ediția:Parental Adviso.
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Educational Psychology Series
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Public țintă
ProfessionalCuprins
Introduction; Chapter 1 In Search of Giftedness, Guadalupe Valdés; Chapter 2 Bilinguals and Bilingualism, Guadalupe Valdés, Heather Brookes, Christina Chávez; Chapter 3 A Performance Team, Guadalupe Valdés, Christina Chávez, Claudia Angelelli; Chapter 4 The Study of Young Interpreters, Guadalupe Valdés, Christina Chávez, Claudia Angelelli, Dania García, Marisela González, Leisy Wyman; Chapter 5 The Performance of the Young Interpreters on the Scripted Task, Guadalupe Valdés, Christina Chávez, Claudia Angelelli, Kerry Enright, Dania García, Marisela González; Chapter 6 The Gifts and Talents of Young Interpreters, Guadalupe Valdés; Chapter 7 Developing the Talents of Latino Immigrant Children, Guadalupe Valdés;
Recenzii
"Building on several decades of research on the topic and highlighting new empirical research, these books, accessible to a variety of readers, move the discussion of gifted bilinguals from the pages of scholarly journals to the public domain. For that and for the depth of treatment and concreteness of proposed solutions they deserve great recognition."
—Bilingual Education and Bilingualism
"This is an important and groundbreaking book. Teachers and administrators working in gifted programs and with students whose native language is not English need to read it and expand their understanding of what giftedness involves."
—Studies for Second Language Acquisition
"This is an important book because it brings together sociolinguistics and education to analyze a field that has been superficially explored. It clearly lays out what a complicated cognitive process interpretation/translation is. Society in general takes for granted the work of interpreters, especially casual interpreters. This volume dispels that myth and raises the notion of bilingualism as an asset, not a detriment....The potential implications for education are tremendous."
—Mar¡a Estela Brisk
Boston College
"The authors merge two very different bodies of literature and research--interpreting and giftedness--and propose that one can inform the other. I think they are right....As a whole, the book is a refreshing look at an area of competence that is given little attention in the literature or in practice."
—Patricia Gandara
University of California at Davis
"The breadth of the book is substantial. It will prove interesting and valuable to persons who are not in the specific field of gifted and talented education, but who want to understand better the adaptation needs and strategies for survival of non-English background immigrant youth and families....and will interest educational professionals in the areas of school psychology, teacher training, educational research, and educational policy analysis...and will be highly informative to graduate students and professional researchers in sociolinguistics, bilingualism, and applied linguistics."
—Richard Duran
University of California at Santa Barbara
—Bilingual Education and Bilingualism
"This is an important and groundbreaking book. Teachers and administrators working in gifted programs and with students whose native language is not English need to read it and expand their understanding of what giftedness involves."
—Studies for Second Language Acquisition
"This is an important book because it brings together sociolinguistics and education to analyze a field that has been superficially explored. It clearly lays out what a complicated cognitive process interpretation/translation is. Society in general takes for granted the work of interpreters, especially casual interpreters. This volume dispels that myth and raises the notion of bilingualism as an asset, not a detriment....The potential implications for education are tremendous."
—Mar¡a Estela Brisk
Boston College
"The authors merge two very different bodies of literature and research--interpreting and giftedness--and propose that one can inform the other. I think they are right....As a whole, the book is a refreshing look at an area of competence that is given little attention in the literature or in practice."
—Patricia Gandara
University of California at Davis
"The breadth of the book is substantial. It will prove interesting and valuable to persons who are not in the specific field of gifted and talented education, but who want to understand better the adaptation needs and strategies for survival of non-English background immigrant youth and families....and will interest educational professionals in the areas of school psychology, teacher training, educational research, and educational policy analysis...and will be highly informative to graduate students and professional researchers in sociolinguistics, bilingualism, and applied linguistics."
—Richard Duran
University of California at Santa Barbara
Descriere
Reports a major study on extending the current definitions of 'gifted' and 'talented' by examining the experiences of bilingual youngsters who are selected by their families to serve as interpreters for the families. Intended for researchers, policymaker