ABSTRACT

Recently intensified global mobility has reinforced the interest for ethnolinguistic diversity and multilingualism in education and society. Interdisciplinary Research Approaches to Multilingual Education brings together current interdisciplinary perspectives in multilingual and second language education to examine research and language teaching in specific countries, as well as different aspects of multilingual education that include language policies and ICT applications.

Containing context-specific practical interventions and relevant theoretical approaches, it considers the contemporary challenges of language policies and practices to inform teacher and curriculum development based on international empirical research. The chapters of this book are centered around the following themes:

  • Educational programs and policies
  • Teaching and learning
  • Linguistic diversity
  • ICT and language learning

This book will be of great interest to academics, researchers and postgraduate students in language education, bilingual education, second/foreign language learning, CALL, and applied linguistics. It will also appeal to educational administrators and those involved with language education policies.

part A|54 pages

Educational programs and policies

chapter 1|17 pages

Linguistic rights and educational policies

Aspects of minority language education in Europe

chapter 2|11 pages

Building a multilingual learning community

Educational partnerships with parents in a multilingual preschool in Iceland

part B|74 pages

Teaching and learning

chapter 6|14 pages

Plurilingualism in linguistically diverse language classrooms

Respecting and validating student identity

chapter 8|13 pages

Conversations within

Journal writing as an alternative form of exploration in foreign language pedagogy

part C|68 pages

Linguistic diversity

chapter 11|16 pages

Identity vs. diversity

Issues on recognition, ‘management,’ and acceptance of diversity

chapter 12|8 pages

Evolution in terms of theoretical conceptualization of translanguaging in Applied Linguistics

The example of Greek and French language classrooms

chapter 13|10 pages

Language diversity in three Italian communities in the UK

Heritage languages and code-switching

chapter 15|18 pages

Is translanguaging a possibility in a language class?

Theoretical issues and applications in an EFL class

part D|78 pages

ICT and language learning