ABSTRACT
This book maps out the pedagogical implications of the global spread and diversification of pluricentric languages for language education and showcases new approaches that can take account of linguistic diversity.
Moving the discussion of contemporary norms, aims, and approaches to pluricentric languages in language education beyond English, this book provides a multilingual, comparative perspective through case study examples of Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Dutch, and Vietnamese. The chapters document, compare, and evaluate existing practices in the teaching of pluricentric languages, and highlights different pedagogical approaches that embrace their variability and diversity.
Presenting approaches to overcome barriers to innovation in language education, the book will be of great interest to academics, researchers, doctoral students in the field of language education, as well as socio- and applied linguists. Practitioners interested in linguistic diversity more broadly will also find this book engaging.
The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-4.0 license.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|6 pages
Introduction
part I|48 pages
Pluricentricity and Language Teaching
chapter 82|16 pages
Pluricentric Languages and the Teaching of Spanish and French
chapter 3|16 pages
Integrating Linguistic Diversity into English Language Teaching
chapter 4|14 pages
Transferring Pluricentric Approaches from the Teaching of Portuguese and Vietnamese
part II|94 pages
Pluricentric Languages and Aspects of Linguistic Variation in Language Education
chapter 7|22 pages
Specific Preferences vs. Inclusive Foreign Language Education
chapter 8|19 pages
Encounters with Englishes
chapter 9|17 pages
Creating Awareness of Pluricentricity at University Language Departments
part III|68 pages
New Approaches to Teaching and Learning Pluricentric Languages