Plurilingual Education in a Monolingualised Nation

Daniel Roy Pearce is a lecturer and teacher trainer in the Faculty of Education, Shitennoji University, Japan. His current research interests include interdisciplinary plurilingual education, teacher collaboration, and plurilingualism and linguistic diversity within primarily monolingual contexts.

This book presents illuminating cases of practitioners promoting grassroots plurilingual education even in a context traditionally portrayed as being monolingual. Analyzing rich multimodal data, Pearce successfully helps readers see a more diverse reality of the country than is commonly believed and offers educational possibilities that can be explored outside the context as well.

• AcknowledgementsDanièle Moore: ForewordIntroduction: Monolingualism and JapanPart 1. Monolingualism Colliding with PlurilingualismChapter 1. Foreign Language Education and Plurilingualism: Global and Local Trends      Chapter 2. Multimodal Polyethnography in Language Teaching ResearchChapter 3. Situating the Author: 'Wearing Both Pairs of Shoes' Part 2. Plurilingual Practices and PerspectivesChapter 4. From English-Only to Plurilingual Education: Yuki-sensei’s JourneyChapter 5. Making the Classroom Multilingual: Yuki-sensei’s Practice     Chapter 6. A 'Monolingual' Foreign Language Teacher: Kana-sensei's Initiative            Chapter 7. Pedagogies of Resistance, Peace Learning and Plurilingualism: Kana-sensei's Practice  Part 3. Plurilingual PotentialsChapter 8. Imported Diversity? Plurilingual Assistant Language TeachersChapter 9. Beyond Native-Speakerism: ALTs as more than English ModelsConclusion: Implications for Teacher Training across Contexts    AppendicesReferences