Bilingual Community Education and Multilingualism

2012-09-15
Bilingual Community Education and Multilingualism

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  • Author: Ofelia Garc?a
  • Publisher: Multilingual Matters
  • ISBN: 184769800X
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 362

This book explores bilingual community education, specifically the educational spaces shaped and organized by American ethnolinguistic communities for their children in the multilingual city of New York. Employing a rich variety of case studies which highlight the importance of the ethnolinguistic community in bilingual education, this collection examines the various structures that these communities use to educate their children as bilingual Americans. In doing so, it highlights the efforts and activism of these communities and what bilingual community education really means in today's globalized world. The volume offers new understandings of heritage language education, bilingual education, and speech communities for bilingual Americans in the 21st century.

Bilingual Community Education and Multilingualism

2012-09-15
Bilingual Community Education and Multilingualism

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  • Author: Ofelia García
  • Publisher: Multilingual Matters
  • ISBN: 1847698018
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 354

"This book takes up the lens of ethnolinguistic communities as they proudly educate their own children in their ways of speaking and being. These bilingual community education programs are unlike bilingual programs in US public schools, where speakers of languages other than English are often minoritized. In these programs, the children's linguistic and cultural diversity are their most valuable assets. But these bilingual community education programs are also different from how others have characterized ???heritage language??? programs. In these bilingual community education programs diasporic ethnolinguistic communities ensure that their children use their ways of speaking and being within a US global context. Thus, their interest is not in their heritage, as the language and the culture was performed in the past, in another space, but as a dynamic bilingualism and biculturalism that is performed by American children."--publisher website.

Bilingual and Multilingual Education in the 21st Century

2013-10-30
Bilingual and Multilingual Education in the 21st Century

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  • Author: Christian Abello-Contesse
  • Publisher: Multilingual Matters
  • ISBN: 1783090707
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 348

This book includes the work of 20 specialists working in various educational contexts around the world to create comprehensive and multidimensional coverage of current bilingual initiatives. Themes covered include issues in language use in classrooms; participant perspectives on bilingual education experiences; and the language needs of bi- and multilingual students in monolingual schools.

The Bilingual Revolution

2017
The Bilingual Revolution

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  • Author: Fabrice Jaumont
  • Publisher: TBR Books
  • ISBN: 1947626000
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 209

The Bilingual Revolution is a collection of inspirational vignettes and practical advice that tells the story of the parents and educators who founded dual language programs in New York City public schools. The book doubles as a "how to" manual for setting up your own bilingual school and, in so doing, launching your own revolution.

Foundations of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism

2021-03-08
Foundations of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism

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  • Author: Colin Baker
  • Publisher: Multilingual Matters
  • ISBN: 1788929918
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 692

The seventh edition of this bestselling textbook has been extensively revised and updated to provide a comprehensive and accessible introduction to bilingualism and bilingual education in an everchanging world. Written in a compact and clear style, the book covers all the crucial issues in bilingualism and multilingualism at individual, group and societal levels. Updates to the new edition include: Thoroughly updated chapters with over 500 new citations of the latest research. Six chapters with new titles to better reflect their updated content. A new Chapter 16 on Deaf-Signing People, Bilingualism/Multilingualism, and Bilingual Education. The latest demographics and other statistical data. Recent developments in and limitations of brain imaging research. An expanded discussion of key topics including multilingual education, codeswitching, translanguaging, translingualism, biliteracy, multiliteracies, metalinguistic and morphological awareness, superdiversity, raciolinguistics, anti-racist education, critical post-structural sociolinguistics, language variation, motivation, age effects, power, and neoliberal ideologies. Recent US policy developments including the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), Seal of Biliteracy, Proposition 58, LOOK Act, Native American Languages Preservation Act, and state English proficiency standards and assessments consortia (WIDA, ELPA21). New global examples of research, policy, and practice beyond Europe and North America. Technology and language learning on the internet and via mobile apps, and multilingual language use on the internet and in social media. Students and Instructors will benefit from updated chapter features including: New bolded key terms corresponding to a comprehensive glossary Recommended readings and online resources Discussion questions and study activities

The Handbook of Bilingual and Multilingual Education

2017-09-25
The Handbook of Bilingual and Multilingual Education

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  • Author: Wayne E. Wright
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
  • ISBN: 1119005493
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 688

The Handbook of Bilingual and Multilingual Education presents the first comprehensive international reference work of the latest policies, practices, and theories related to the dynamic interdisciplinary field of bilingual and multilingual education. Represents the first comprehensive reference work that covers bilingual, multilingual, and multicultural educational policies and practices around the world Features contributions from 78 established and emerging international scholars Offers extensive coverage in sixteen chapters of language and education issues in specific and diverse regional/geographic contexts, including South Africa, Mexico, Latvia, Cambodia, Japan, and Texas Covers pedagogical issues such as language assessment as well as offering evolving perspectives on the needs of specific learner populations, such as ELLs, learners with language impairments, and bilingual education outside of the classroom

Social Justice through Multilingual Education

2009-08-20
Social Justice through Multilingual Education

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  • Author: Tove Skutnabb-Kangas
  • Publisher: Multilingual Matters
  • ISBN: 1847696856
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 408

The principles for enabling children to become fully proficient multilinguals through schooling are well known. Even so, most indigenous/tribal, minority and marginalised children are not provided with appropriate mother-tongue-based multilingual education (MLE) that would enable them to succeed in school and society. In this book experts from around the world ask why this is, and show how it can be done. The book discusses general principles and challenges in depth and presents case studies from Canada and the USA, northern Europe, Peru, Africa, India, Nepal and elsewhere in Asia. Analysis by leading scholars in the field shows the importance of building on local experience. Sharing local solutions globally can lead to better theory, and to action for more social justice and equality through education.

The Multilingual Apple

2002
The Multilingual Apple

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  • Author: Ofelia García
  • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
  • ISBN: 9783110172812
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 392

This book will be of special interest to the general reader concerned with the issue of language in the United States, as well as the language specialist and sociolinguist. It has been written to inform those wishing to learn more about the role that languages other than English have had, and continue to have, in the life of the most important United States city, New York. At the same time this volume makes an important contribution to the scholarly literature on urban multilingualism and the sociology of language. The book contains chapters on languages of ethnolinguistic groups who arrived early in New York and which have been somewhat silenced (Irish, German, Yiddish), the languages of groups who made early contributions and continue to be heard in the city (Italian, Greek , Spanish, Hebrew), and languages which are acquiring an important voice in the city today (Chinese, Indian languages, English creoles, Haitian Creole).

Policy and Practice in Bilingual Education

1995-01-01
Policy and Practice in Bilingual Education

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  • Author: Ofelia García
  • Publisher: Multilingual Matters
  • ISBN: 9781853592669
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 308

A collection of pivotal papers from 1986-1993 on bilingualism and bilingual education, grouped in sections on policy and legislation, implementation of bilingual policy in schools, bilingualism in instruction, and using the bilingualism of the school community. Articles conclude with suggested student activities and discussion questions, encouraging students to take on an advocacy-oriented role. The reader can be used alone or with the publisher's Foundations of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism. No index. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Multilingualism and Creativity

2012-09-03
Multilingualism and Creativity

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  • Author: Anatoliy V. Kharkhurin
  • Publisher: Multilingual Matters
  • ISBN: 1847697968
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 236

In this monograph, Anatoliy V. Kharkhurin presents the results of his empirical investigation into the impact of multilingual practice on an individual's creative potential. Until now, the relationship between these two activities has received little attention in the academic community. The book makes an attempt to resuscitate this theme and provides a solid theoretical framework supported by contemporary empirical research conducted in a variety of geographic, linguistic, and sociocultural locations. This study demonstrates that several factors - such as the multilinguals' age of language acquisition, proficiency in these languages and experience with cultural settings in which these languages were acquired - have a positive impact on selective attention and language mediated concept activation mechanisms. Together, these facilitate generative and innovative capacities of creative thinking. This book will be of great interest not only to scholars in the fields of multilingualism and creativity, but also to educators and all those interested in enhancing foreign language learning and fostering creativity.