Community and Heritage Languages Schools Transforming Education

Research, Challenges, and Teaching Practices

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

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Beskrivning

This edited book offers a new look at community and heritage languages schools around the world, providing a comprehensive and nuanced portrait of language education and cultural understanding in and beyond school contexts. Covering research and practice, the contributors survey the global landscape of community and heritage language schools and explore new developments in the field to understand the challenges the schools face and discuss the impact they have on their students and surrounding communities. Chapters address key topics including language development, academic achievement, professional development, learner identity and agency, online learning and teaching disruptions. Contributors highlight learners’ voices throughout, with special attention to overlooked minority language communities and Indigenous voices.Through this wealth of thorough and insightful analysis, the contributors of this book position students of community/heritage languages schools as citizens of a plurilingual world who are central to global change. Abounding with original research, innovative ideas and cutting-edge teaching practices, this book is ideal for courses on multilingualism and language and culture.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2023-11-14
Mått:152 x 229 x 23 mm
Vikt:650 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:334
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9781032287126

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Ken Cruickshank is professor of education and TESOL at the University of Sydney and Director of the Sydney Institute for Community Languages Education (SICLE), Australia.Joseph Lo Bianco is Professor Emeritus of Language and Literacy Education at the Melbourne Graduate School of Education, Australia, and Vice President of the Autralian Academy of the Humanities.Merryl Wahlin is an experienced government and non-government languages consultant and is Deputy Director of the Sydney Institute of Community Language Education (SICLE), Australia.

Innehållsförteckning

Contributor BiographiesPreface Chapter 1 Community/Heritage Languages Schools Transforming Education: Beyond complementary, more than integrationChapter 2 Teaching and Learning Community Languages in Scotland during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Challenges, opportunities, and innovations Chapter 3 Reimagining ‘Language’, ‘Community’, and ‘Identity’ in Community Language Learning Chapter 4 New Possibilities for Heritage Languages within a Reshaped Language Education Landscape: Lessons from the Critical Connections Multilingual Digital Storytelling Project Chapter 5 Arabic Heritage Schools as Sites of Multilingualism and Positive Identity Building in the UKChapter 6 Leading Community/ Heritage Languages Schools Chapter 7 ‘Progressing Progressions’: Design Considerations in the Development of Language Learning Progressions for Community Language Learners Chapter 8 Teacher Professional Identities Across Sectors Chapter 9 "The school made me realise that all Chinese people are different": Constructing Interculturality and Pupils’ Identity in Two Community SchoolsChapter 10 Reasons and Resistance: Parents’ Reflections on Community Language Education in Swedish and Vietnamese Schools Chapter 11 Transnational Vietnamese Parents as Managers of Heritage Language Education: The "How" of "What"Chapter 12 Confronting a Monolingual Mindset: Exploring Pathways to Accreditation for Community Languages Teachers Chapter 13 Community Language School Teachers’ Emotions and Professional LearningChapter 14 Charting Pedagogies for Community/ Heritage Language Learning Within a More Unified, Pluralist View of Languageand Literacy EducationChapter 15 Community Language Learning Supported by Religious and Spiritual Contexts Chapter 16 Religion in Community Language Schools: The beliefs of Brazilian teachers in England Chapter 17 Case Studies: Greek, Arabic and Tamil Language Schools Chapter 18 Parallel Lines: Community/Heritage Languages Schools and Future Research Index