Social and cultural dimensions of the education of language minority students / Virginia Vogel Zanger -- The acculturation of ethnolinguistic minorities / Nancy Cloud -- Bilingualism and second language acquisition in academic contexts / Eugene E. Garcia -- Early childhood education : the effects of language on learning / Evangeline Harris Stefanakis -- Native and second language literacy : the promise of a new decade / Carmen I. Mercado -- Literature and the language minority child : a multicultural perspective / Milga Morales-Nadal -- Bilingual gifted and talented students / Deborah M. Harris and Jeanne Weismantel --Teacher training in bilingual education and English as a second language : recent research developments / Liliana Minaya-Rowe -- Psychoeducational assessment of language minority children : current perspectives and future trends / Maria D. Alvarez -- The education of language minorities : an overview of findings and a research agenda / Alba N. Ambert.