Language Policy for the Multilingual Classroom
Title | Language Policy for the Multilingual Classroom PDF eBook |
Author | Christine Hélot |
Publisher | Multilingual Matters |
Pages | 231 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1847693660 |
The book proposes a round the world exploration of the way our traditionally monolingual school systems are being challenged by students from diverse language backgrounds, forcing educationalists to question entrenched ideologies of language and challenging teachers in their everyday classrooms to rethink their relationships to language learning and the issue of diversity.
Language and Learning in Multilingual Classrooms
Title | Language and Learning in Multilingual Classrooms PDF eBook |
Author | Elizabeth Coelho |
Publisher | Multilingual Matters |
Pages | 374 |
Release | 2012-06-25 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1847697208 |
This book offers practical research-based advice for teachers and other educators on how to adapt school and classroom procedures, curriculum content, and instructional strategies in order to provide a supportive learning environment for students of minority language backgrounds who are learning the language of instruction at the same time as they are learning the curriculum.
Teaching Content and Language in the Multilingual Classroom
Title | Teaching Content and Language in the Multilingual Classroom PDF eBook |
Author | Svenja Hammer |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 219 |
Release | 2019-07-03 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 0429860730 |
This book brings together research from six different countries across three continents where teacher educators and policy makers are addressing the under-preparation of content teachers to work effectively with multilingual learners. By highlighting this relatively young field of research at an international level, the book advances the research-based knowledge of the field and promotes international research relationships and partnerships to better support the education of multilingual learners and their teachers. The chapters represent high-quality empirical qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods studies about pre-service and in-service teachers. Comprising four sections, each represents a critical aspect of the equitable teaching of multilingual learners. All the research was conducted in countries that belong to OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) and the PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) enabling the reader to compare contexts and outcomes. This book will be of particular interest to academics, researchers, and post-graduate students in the fields of language education, teacher education, and education for multilingual learners. It will be of great value to anyone concerned with equity and social justice for multilingual learners whose languages, cultural practices, and resources are often overlooked and/or marginalized in the schools they attend.
Foreign Language Education in Multilingual Classrooms
Title | Foreign Language Education in Multilingual Classrooms PDF eBook |
Author | Andreas Bonnet |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Pages | 433 |
Release | 2018-10-15 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 902726385X |
This volume challenges traditional approaches to foreign language education and proposes to redefine them in our age of international migration and globalization. Foreign language classrooms are no longer populated by monolingual students, but increasingly by multilingual students with highly diverse language backgrounds. This necessitates a new understanding of foreign language learning and teaching. The volume brings together an international group of researchers of high caliber who specialize in third language acquisition, teaching English as an additional language, and multilingual education. In addition to topical overview articles on the multilingual policies pursued in Europe, Africa, North America, and Asia, as well as several contributions dealing with theoretical issues regarding multilingualism and plurilingualism, the volume also offers cutting edge case studies from multilingual acquisition research and foreign language classroom practice. Throughout the volume, multilingualism is interpreted as a valuable resource that can facilitate language education provided it is harnessed in appropriate conditions.
Language Policy Across the Curriculum
Title | Language Policy Across the Curriculum PDF eBook |
Author | David Corson |
Publisher | Clevedon [England] : Multilingual Matters |
Pages | 328 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Education |
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This work provides a knowledge base for those addressing the first, second or foreign language problems of schools in pluralist modern societies. It gives international examples of language policies already in action in primary and secondary schools.
English Learners Left Behind
Title | English Learners Left Behind PDF eBook |
Author | Kate Menken |
Publisher | Multilingual Matters |
Pages | 216 |
Release | 2008-01-01 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1853599972 |
This book explores how high-stakes tests mandated by No Child Left Behind have become de facto language policy in U.S. schools, detailing how testing has shaped curriculum and instruction, and the myriad ways that tests are now a defining force in the daily lives of English Language Learners and the educators who serve them.
Language Policy for the Multilingual Classroom
Title | Language Policy for the Multilingual Classroom PDF eBook |
Author | Christine Hélot |
Publisher | Multilingual Matters |
Pages | 231 |
Release | 2011-06-08 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1847695043 |
With contributions from leading scholars all around the world, this volume underlines the ever-pressing need for new language in education policies to include all learners’ voices in the multilingual classroom and to empower teachers to develop responsive and transformative pedagogies. Using testimonies, narratives and examples from different international contexts, this book points clearly to what can be achieved practically in the multilingual classroom so that multilingual learners’ voices are legitimated, while also addressing the complex inter-relating sociolinguistic issues around the promotion of bilingualism and multilingualism in education.