Dr. Cummins has written and presented many works on second language learning and literacy development, including:

• Bilingual Children's Mother Tongue: Why Is It Important for Education?
• Language, Power and Pedagogy Ch.1
• Research, Ethics, and Public Discourse: The Debate on Bilingual Education
• Biliteracy, Empowerment, and Transformative Pedagogy
• BICS and CALP: Clarifying the Distinction
• The Ethics of Doublethink: Language Rights and the Bilingual Education Debate
• Education Research in Bilingual Education
• Putting Language Proficiency in Its Place: Responding to Critiques of the Conversational/Academic Language Distinction
• Bilingual Education in the United States: Power, Pedagogy, and Possibility
• Rights and Responsibilities of Educators of Bilingual-Bicultural Children
• e-Lective Language Learning: Design of a Computer-Assisted Text-Based ESL/EFL Learning System
• “This Place Nurtures My Spirit:” Creating Contexts of Empowerment in Linguistically-Diverse Schools

http://www.free.ed.gov/resource.cfm?resource_id=1622&subject_id=245&toplvl=78

The article examines the mental and physical aspects of speech, why foreign speakers pronounce words differently from native speakers, how we learn language, why languages change, how changes spread through populations, endangered languages, dialects, and sign language.

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