Reviving Catalan at School

A multilingual environment creates complex situations when teaching oral communication and literacy. The Catalan language is not only an element of identity, but also an example of a linguistic milieu affording immersion into an integrated language model. Catalan, Spanish and English are presented as a model of multilingualism. This book deals with good practices and the challenges encountered therein. * Emili Soro-Camats, University of Barcelona, Spain * This book will be an excellent resource for scholars, educators, and policy-makers involved in language planning and acquisition. * Jordan Lavender, University at Albany, in Linguist List 25.2317 *

Joaquim Arnau is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Developmental and Educational Psychology, University of Barcelona. He has published widely on bilingual education and second language learning in Catalan.

Introduction - Joaquim Arnau Chapter 1 - Joaquim Arnau and Francesc Xavier Vila: Language-in-education Policies in the Catalan Language Area Chapter 2 - Angel Huguet, Jose-Luis Navarro, Silvia-Maria Chireac and Clara Sanso: The Acquisition of Catalan by Migrant Children: The Effect of Length of Stay and Family Language Chapter 3 - Mireia Trenchs-Parera and Adriana Patino-Santos: Language Attitudes of Latin American Newcomers in Three Secondary School Reception Classes in Catalonia Chapter 4 - Nuria Castells, Isabel Sole, Cristina Luna, Eva Lordan, Esther Nadal, Mariana Miras and Sandra Espino: Training a Primary Education Teacher to Teach Expository Text Comprehension Strategies Chapter 5 - Joaquim Arnau, Haridian M. de Aysa and Sonia Jarque: Teacher Training in Literacy Instruction and Academic Achievement in a Multilingual Classroom Chapter 6 - Aneska Ortega, Julia Coromina and Ana Teberosky: Production of Texts with Multimodal Resources by Two Groups of Primary Education Students Chapter 7 - Oriol Guasch Boye: Interlinguistic Reflection on Teaching and Learning Languages Chapter 8 - Cristina Escobar Urmeneta and Natalia Evnitskaya: Affording Students Opportunities for the Integrated Learning of Content and Language: A Contrastive Study on Classroom Interactional Strategies Deployed by Two CLIL Teachers Chapter 9 - Rosa Maria Ramirez & Teresa Serra: Integrated Languages Project