Flexible Multilingual Education

Putting Children's Needs First

AvJean-Jacques Weber

Inbunden, Engelska, 2014

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This book examines the benefits of multilingual education that puts children’s needs and interests above the individual languages involved. It advocates flexible multilingual education, which builds upon children’s actual home resources and provides access to both the local and global languages that students need for their educational and professional success. It argues that, as more and more children grow up multilingually in our globalised world, there is a need for more nuanced multilingual solutions in language-in-education policies. The case studies reveal that flexible multilingual education – rather than mother tongue education – is the most promising way of moving towards the elusive goal of educational equity in today’s world of globalisation, migration and superdiversity.

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Utgivningsdatum:2014-05-12
Mått:148 x 210 x 18 mm
Vikt:404 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:New Perspectives on Language and Education
Antal sidor:232
Förlag:Channel View Publications Ltd
ISBN:9781783091997

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Jean-Jacques Weber is Professor of English and Education at the University of Luxembourg. His research interests include discourse analysis, and multilingualism and education, and he has recently co-authored Introducing Multilingualism (2012) and co-edited Multilingualism and Multimodality (2013).

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Extremely readable, this book offers critical windows into a wide range of educational contexts illustrating different approaches to bilingual and multilingual education. The author sets the agenda for much needed future implementations of what he defines as flexible multilingual education by drawing lessons from the impact that each of the programs and policies analyzed has had on children's, parents' and society's language attitudes, ideologies and practices. All in all, a valuable resource for researchers, teachers and policy makers.

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Acknowledgements1. IntroductionPart I2. Using Non-standard Varieties in Education3. The Issue of Access4. What Makes and Breaks a Good Language-in-education Policy? A Social PerspectivePart II5. The United States of America6. Hong Kong and China7. Singapore8. South Africa9. Luxembourg10. Three Autonomous Communities of Spain: Catalonia, the Basque Country and Galicia11. ConclusionReferencesIndex