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Towards Openly Multilingual Policies and Practices
Assessing Minority Language Maintenance Across Europe
Av Johanna Laakso, Anneli Sarhimaa m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
1725 kr
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This book investigates the maintenance of multilingualism and minority languages in 12 different minority communities across Europe, all of which are underrepresented in international minority language studies. The book presents a number of case studies covering a broad range of highly diverse …
Decolonizing Primary English Language Teaching
Inbunden, 2016
1882 kr
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This book tells the story of a project in Mexico which aimed to decolonize primary English teaching by building on research that suggests Indigenous students are struggling in educational systems and are discriminated against by the mainstream. Led by their instructor, a group of student teachers …
Why English?
Confronting the Hydra
Av Pauline Bunce, Robert Phillipson m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
637 kr
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This book explores the ways and means by which English threatens the vitality and diversity of other languages and cultures in the modern world. Using the metaphor of the Hydra monster from ancient Greek mythology, it explores the use and misuse of English in a wide range of contexts, revealing how …
Who’s Afraid of Multilingual Education?
Conversations with Tove Skutnabb-Kangas, Jim Cummins, Ajit Mohanty and Stephen Bahry about the Iranian Context and Beyond
Av Amir Kalan
Inbunden, 2016
1441 kr
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More than 70 languages are spoken in contemporary Iran, yet all governmental correspondence and educational textbooks must be written in Farsi. To date, the Iranian mother tongue debate has remained far from the international scholarly exchanges of ideas about multilingual education. This book …
Multilingual Reality
Living with Languages
Häftad, 2018
556 kr
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This book is a multidisciplinary analysis of the meaning and dynamics of multilingualism from the perspectives of multilingual societies and language communities in the margins, who are trapped in a vicious circle of disadvantage. It analyses the social, psychological and sociolinguistic processes …
Multilingual Reality
Living with Languages
Inbunden, 2018
1815 kr
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This book is a multidisciplinary analysis of the meaning and dynamics of multilingualism from the perspectives of multilingual societies and language communities in the margins, who are trapped in a vicious circle of disadvantage. It analyses the social, psychological and sociolinguistic processes …
World of Indigenous Languages
Politics, Pedagogies and Prospects for Language Reclamation
Av Teresa L. McCarty, Sheilah E. Nicholas m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
470 kr
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Spanning Indigenous settings in Africa, the Americas, Aotearoa/New Zealand, Australia, Central Asia and the Nordic countries, this book examines the multifaceted language reclamation work underway by Indigenous peoples throughout the world. Exploring political, historical, ideological, and …
World of Indigenous Languages
Politics, Pedagogies and Prospects for Language Reclamation
Av Teresa L. McCarty, Sheilah E. Nicholas m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
1641 kr
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Spanning Indigenous settings in Africa, the Americas, Aotearoa/New Zealand, Australia, Central Asia and the Nordic countries, this book examines the multifaceted language reclamation work underway by Indigenous peoples throughout the world. Exploring political, historical, ideological, and …
Rejecting the Marginalized Status of Minority Languages
Educational Projects Pushing Back Against Language Endangerment
Av Ari Sherris, Susan D. Penfield
Inbunden, 2019
1641 kr
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This book explores Indigenous, tribal and minority (ITM) language education in oral and/or written communication and in the use of new technologies and online resources for pedagogical purposes in diverse geopolitical contexts. It demonstrates that ITM language education transpires in both formal …
Rethinking the Education of Multilingual Learners
A Critical Analysis of Theoretical Concepts
Av Jim Cummins
Häftad, 2021
444 kr
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A ground-breaking and topical commentary from a leading thinker within the field of multilingual education.Over the past 40 years, Jim Cummins has proposed a number of highly influential theoretical concepts, including the threshold and interdependence hypotheses and the distinction between …
Rethinking the Education of Multilingual Learners
A Critical Analysis of Theoretical Concepts
Av Jim Cummins
Inbunden, 2021
1677 kr
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A ground-breaking and topical commentary from a leading thinker within the field of multilingual education.Over the past 40 years, Jim Cummins has proposed a number of highly influential theoretical concepts, including the threshold and interdependence hypotheses and the distinction between …
Language Allegiances and Bilingualism in the US
Häftad, 2009
431 kr
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This book analyses the concept of language allegiances, and, more broadly, language-based identities in a multilingual society such as the US. The guiding theme of the chapters that comprise this volume is the identification of specific beliefs and attitudes towards language, and how these lead to …
Social Justice through Multilingual Education
Av Tove Skutnabb-Kangas, Robert Phillipson m. fl.
Häftad, 2009
485 kr
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The principles for enabling children to become fully proficient multilinguals through schooling are well known. Even so, most indigenous/tribal, minority and marginalised children are not provided with appropriate mother-tongue-based multilingual education (MLE) that would enable them to succeed in …
Illegitimate Practices
Global English Language Education
Häftad, 2010
498 kr
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ELT education, as a commodity, takes many forms in countries all over the world. This book questions how the benefits of international English language education projects are distributed. The critical issues of language rights and linguistic diversity are pivotal in the book’s examination of …
English Language as Hydra
Its Impacts on Non-English Language Cultures
Av Vaughan Rapatahana, Pauline Bunce
Häftad, 2012
499 kr
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In far too many places, the worldwide trade in English-language teaching, testing and publishing has become a self-perpetuating, self-congratulating, neocolonial monster … a veritable multi-headed Hydra. Too often the English language industry aggressively promotes itself as some sort of …
Revitalising Indigenous Languages
How to Recreate a Lost Generation
Av Marja-Liisa Olthuis, Suvi Kivelä m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
485 kr
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The book tells the story of the Indigenous Aanaar Saami language (around 350 speakers) and cultural revitalisation in Finland. It offers a new language revitalisation method that can be used with Indigenous and minority languages, especially in cases where the native language has been lost among …
Revitalising Indigenous Languages
How to Recreate a Lost Generation
Av Marja-Liisa Olthuis, Suvi Kivelä m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
1677 kr
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The book tells the story of the Indigenous Aanaar Saami language (around 350 speakers) and cultural revitalisation in Finland. It offers a new language revitalisation method that can be used with Indigenous and minority languages, especially in cases where the native language has been lost among …
Imagining Multilingual Schools
Languages in Education and Glocalization
Av Ofelia García, Tove Skutnabb-Kangas m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
475 kr
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This book brings together visions and realities of multilingual schools throughout the world in order to examine the pedagogical, socioeducational, and sociopolitical issues that impact on their development and success. The chapters describe and analyze pedagogical, instructional, and policy …
Global Issues in Language, Education and Development
Perspectives from Postcolonial Countries
Av Naz Rassool
Häftad, 2007
485 kr
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The question of why the issue of language features increasingly at the centre of debates about education for social and economic development at the beginning of the 21st Century is compelling. Within a rapidly changing world, language, literacy and communication are seen as constituting key …
Regional Nationalism in Spain
Language Use and Ethnic Identity in Galicia
Häftad, 2007
566 kr
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This highly accessible book examines linguistic diversity in Galicia, one of the devolved regions of Spain. Its principal hypotheses are: that the Galician language is an intrinsic characteristic of Galician ethnic identity: that policy and planning impact on the behavioural practices of language …
Regional Nationalism in Spain
Language Use and Ethnic Identity in Galicia
Inbunden, 2007
1868 kr
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This highly accessible book examines linguistic diversity in Galicia, one of the devolved regions of Spain. Its principal hypotheses are: that the Galician language is an intrinsic characteristic of Galician ethnic identity: that policy and planning impact on the behavioural practices of language …
Linguistic Genocide or Superdiversity?
New and Old Language Diversities
Av Reetta Toivanen, Janne Saarikivi
Inbunden, 2016
1525 kr
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Are we facing an immense wave of language death or a period of remarkable new linguistic variation? Or both? This book answers this question by analysing studies of language endangerment and loss along with those of language change, revitalization and diversity. Using case studies from Russia and …
Language Allegiances and Bilingualism in the US
Inbunden, 2009
1270 kr
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This book analyses the concept of language allegiances, and, more broadly, language-based identities in a multilingual society such as the US. The guiding theme of the chapters that comprise this volume is the identification of specific beliefs and attitudes towards language, and how these lead to …
Social Justice through Multilingual Education
Av Tove Skutnabb-Kangas, Robert Phillipson m. fl.
Inbunden, 2009
1439 kr
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The principles for enabling children to become fully proficient multilinguals through schooling are well known. Even so, most indigenous/tribal, minority and marginalised children are not provided with appropriate mother-tongue-based multilingual education (MLE) that would enable them to succeed in …
Illegitimate Practices
Global English Language Education
Inbunden, 2010
1477 kr
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ELT education, as a commodity, takes many forms in countries all over the world. This book questions how the benefits of international English language education projects are distributed. The critical issues of language rights and linguistic diversity are pivotal in the book’s examination of …
Imagining Multilingual Schools
Languages in Education and Glocalization
Av Ofelia García, Tove Skutnabb-Kangas m. fl.
Inbunden, 2006
1439 kr
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This book brings together visions and realities of multilingual schools throughout the world in order to examine the pedagogical, socioeducational, and sociopolitical issues that impact on their development and success. The chapters describe and analyze pedagogical, instructional, and policy …
Minority Languages and Cultural Diversity in Europe
Gaelic and Sorbian Perspectives
Inbunden, 2007
1175 kr
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To what extent is linguistic continuity a prerequisite for ethno-cultural survival? Focusing on the Gaelic community in Scotland and the Sorbs of Lusatia, this study illuminates core assumptions and rationales in relation to minority language revitalisation ideologies in Scotland and Germany and …
Global Issues in Language, Education and Development
Perspectives from Postcolonial Countries
Av Naz Rassool
Inbunden, 2007
1439 kr
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The question of why the issue of language features increasingly at the centre of debates about education for social and economic development at the beginning of the 21st Century is compelling. Within a rapidly changing world, language, literacy and communication are seen as constituting key …
