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OverviewThis work is about bilingual young people who have been selected by their families to carry out the hard work of interpreting and translating to mediate communication between themselves and the outside world - between minority and majority communities. It examines the experiences of these young interpreters and the skills they develop in order to fulfil this role. The authors' purpose in the 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 be included in the 1993 US federal definition of giftedness. The authors maintain that not only are these capabilities 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 The research this work 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Guadalupe ValdesPublisher: Taylor & Francis Inc Imprint: Routledge Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.470kg ISBN: 9780805840513ISBN 10: 0805840516 Pages: 252 Publication Date: 01 February 2003 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction; 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;ReviewsBuilding 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 """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" Author InformationGuadalupe Valdés Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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