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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part A|54 pages
Educational programs and policies
chapter 1|17 pages
Linguistic rights and educational policies
chapter 2|11 pages
Building a multilingual learning community
chapter 3|12 pages
Case study research on the less known multilingual educational program of Val d’Aran in Catalonia, Spain
chapter 4|12 pages
Diversity in language teaching and democratization of education
part B|74 pages
Teaching and learning
chapter 6|14 pages
Plurilingualism in linguistically diverse language classrooms
chapter 8|13 pages
Conversations within
part C|68 pages
Linguistic diversity
chapter 11|16 pages
Identity vs. diversity
chapter 12|8 pages
Evolution in terms of theoretical conceptualization of translanguaging in Applied Linguistics
chapter 13|10 pages
Language diversity in three Italian communities in the UK
chapter 15|18 pages
Is translanguaging a possibility in a language class?
part D|78 pages
ICT and language learning