Multilingualism and Language in Education

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Edition:

1st Edition

Author:

Androula Yiakoumetti

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ISBN:

9781107574311

A collaborative series with the University of Cambridge Faculty of Education highlighting leading-edge research across Teacher Education, International Education Reform and Language Education.

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Overview

In today’s world – one characterised by globalisation, transnationalism, transmigration and super-diversity – there exists an urgent need to critically examine language in education, language policies, the role of English and linguistic diversity.Multilingualism and Language in Education explores language issues in the linguistically-diverse settings of Commonwealth countries, alongside supporting reports into the way these issues have been addressed in the United States. Countries within the Commonwealth provide some of the most instructive instances of language use as instruments of empowerment and oppression, cultural liberation, religious evangelism, and as a tool to unify, isolate and/or separate ethnic groups.The volume argues in favour of multilingualism and multiculturalism. The authors argue that, in order to optimise language education in linguistically-diverse settings often characterised by language power relations, both low-status and traditionally-prestigious languages should be used concurrently in education. These collected essays argue for the adoption of this approach in order to unlock the benefits associated with multilingualism.

Features

Besides its academic significance, the volume has very considerable practical significance stemming from its potential to influence curriculum design in the burgeoning number of teacher-training programmes which seek to address issues of linguistic diversity.
Brings together numerous unique studies from around the world that evaluate the effects of incorporating linguistic diversity into formal education,
Uses case study results to identify common findings as well as to provide a meta-analytical overview.

Introduction Language policy and practice with a focus on Commonwealth contexts
Chapter 1 The sociolinguistic and language education landscapes of African
Commonwealth countries
Chapter 2 Multilingualism and language in education in Tanzania
Chapter 3 Language-in-education policy and practice in Ghanaian classrooms: lessons from School for Life's complementary education programm
Chapter 4 Language-in-education policy and practice in India: experiments on multilingual education for tribal children
Chapter 5 Multilingual education in Singapore: beyond language communities?
Chapter 6 Translanguaging in Singapore: discourse in monolingual versus bilingual classrooms
Chapter 7 Home dialect at school: The case of Australian Aboriginal
English-speaking students
Chapter 8 Schooling within shifting langscapes: Educational responses in complex Indigenous language contact ecologie
Chapter 9 School rules: language education policies and practices in the
Creole-speaking Caribbean
Chapter 10 Minority Languages in Canada in the Context of
Official Bilingualism
Chapter 11 Trouble on the Frontier: The Perils of Persisting Colonial
Language Policies in Canada
Chapter 12 Long-term English learners and language education policy
Chapter 13 Translanguaging frameworks for teachers: macro and micro perspectives
Chapter 14 Rethinking multilingualism: trajectories in policy, pedagogy and research in the UK
Chapter 15 Dialects, education and social change in Malta and Gozo
Chapter 16 The sociolinguistic and educational landscapes of Cyprus