JOURNAL OF MULTILINGUAL EDUCATION RESEARCH JMER Volume 3 | Fall 2012 EDITORIAL: Aida A. Nevárez-La Torre: Bilingual Educators as Professionals: The Need for Standards EXPLORATIONS: Patricia Velasco: Integrating Content and Academic Language Using Balanced Literacy Structures: A Framework for Instruction of Emergent Bilinguals Nancy Dubetz : Understanding the Language Choices of Novice Bilingual Teachers During Sheltered English Instruction Áine Cregan: Empowering Teachers to Promote Oral Language in Culturally Diverse Classrooms in Ireland PRACTITIONER’S EXPLORATIONS: Yi-Fang Yeh: Teaching Language and Culture: The Importance of Prior Knowledge when Reading Chinese as a Second Language BOOK REVIEWS: Patricia Velasco: Immigrant Students in High Schools Herlinda Cancino: Finding Their Way in a New Land Mayra Zarnowsky: Hope in Immigrant Youth A publication of The New York State Association for Bilingual Education