The multilingual turn in languages education : opportunities and challenges /: opportunities and challenges. (2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Jean Conteh and Gabriela Meier.
• Editors: Conteh, Jean; Meier, Gabriela, 1965-
• Contents: Contributors ; Foreword ; Acknowledgments ; Jean Conteh and Gabriela Meier: Introduction ; PART I ; Gabriela Meier: Introduction to Part I ; 1. Mooznah Auleear Owodally: Socialized into Multilingualism: A Case Study of Mauritian Preschools ; 2. Ken Cruickshank: Exploring the -Lingual between Bi- and Mono-: Young People and their Language in an Australian Context ; 3. Guangwei Hu and Sandra McKay: Multilingualism as Portrayed in a Chinese English Textbook ; 4. Andrea Young: Looking through the Language Lens: Monolingual Taint or Plurilingual Tint? ; PART II ; Jean Conteh: Introduction to Part II ; 5. Laurent Gajo: From Description to Didactization of Multilingualism: European and Francophone Research at the Crossroads between Linguistics and Didactics ; 6. Gabriela Meier: Our Mother Tongue is Plurilingualism: An Orientation Framework for Integrated Multilingual Curricula ; 7. Jean Conteh, Fiona Copland and Angela Creese: Multilingual Teachers’ Resources in three different Contexts: Empowering Learning ; 8. Gabriela Meier: Multilingualism and Social Cohesion: Two-Way Immersion Education meets Diverse Needs ; PART III ; Jean Conteh and Gabriela Meier: Introduction to Part III ; 9. Jean Conteh, Shila Begum and Saiqa Riasat: Multilingual Learning in Primary Settings - From the Margins to the Mainstream ; 10. Enrica Piccardo and Joëlle Aden: Plurilingualism and Empathy: Beyond Instrumental Language Learning ; 11. Ofelia García and Naomi Kano: Translanguaging as Process and Pedagogy: Developing the English Writing of Japanese Students in the US ; 12. Jim Anderson and Yu-Chiao Chung: Transforming Learning, Building Identities: Arts Based Creativity in the Community Languages Classroom ; Gabriela Meier and Jean Conteh: Conclusion
• Publisher Details: Bristol : Multilingual Matters
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource (320 pages)
• Subjects: 418.007; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Study & Teaching; Language and languages -- Study and teaching; Multilingualism -- Social aspects; Multicultural education; Education, Bilingual; LANGUAGE TEACHING & LEARNING (OTHER THAN ELT); Language learning: specific skills; Language teaching theory & methods
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781783092253; 1783092254
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.