Multilingualism and Very Young Learners

2015-05-19
Multilingualism and Very Young Learners

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  • Author: Laura Portolés Falomir
  • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
  • ISBN: 1501500058
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 219

This book deals with early multilingual acquisition from a holistic, dynamic, and multilingual perspective. It focuses on the analysis of pragmatic awareness and language attitudes of consecutive multilingual children in relation to other variables, such as the linguistic model or the age factor. This volume makes an important contribution to the field, providing evidence for the Dynamic Model of Multilingualism proposed by Herdina and Jessner.

Moving Beyond for Multilingual Learners

2021-11-16
Moving Beyond for Multilingual Learners

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  • Author: Carly Spina
  • Publisher: Edumatch
  • ISBN: 9781953852441
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 250

After serving in linguistically diverse schools for over a decade, Carly Spina has scoured for the most effective and meaningful ways to support multilingual learners. The overwhelming answer has always been this: "Just add visuals!" When it comes to serving our multilingual learners, there are countless ways for us to strengthen our practice! This book will help us to reflect on ways to move beyond our current practices and really dive deep into ways to enhance instruction, create meaningful social-emotional learning experiences, empower families, partner with our community, and more. Let's reflect on our roles as change agents in our systems! It's time to flip lenses and disrupt the deficit narratives of those we serve. Ready? Let's move beyond for multilingual learners!

Multilingualism in the Early Years

2016-04-19
Multilingualism in the Early Years

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  • Author: Sandra Smidt
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1317375319
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 162

Multilingualism in the Early Years is a highly accessible text that examines the political, theoretical, ideological and practical issues involved in the education of children speaking two or more languages. Drawing on current research and thinking about the advantages and disadvantages of being multilingual, Smidt uses powerful case studies to reveal how language or languages are acquired. She explores language in terms of who shares it, its relationship to class, culture, power, identity and thinking, and its fascinating role as it moves from the personal to the public and political. More specifically the book studies: what it means to be bilingual through an analysis of the language histories submitted by a range of people; how language/s define people; a brief history of minority education in the UK; how practitioners and teachers can best support all young children as learners whilst they continue to use their first languages and remain part of and partners in their communities and cultures; being bilingual: an advantage or a disadvantage? the impact of multilingualism on children’s educational and life chances. Multilingualism in the Early Years is a really useful text for practitioners working with multilingual children, as well as any student undertaking courses in early childhood education.

Culturally Responsive Teaching for Multilingual Learners

2021-01-25
Culturally Responsive Teaching for Multilingual Learners

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  • Author: Sydney Snyder
  • Publisher: Corwin Press
  • ISBN: 1071817248
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 364

What will you do to promote multilingual learners’ equity? Our nation’s moment of reckoning with the deficit view of multilingual learners has arrived. The COVID-19 pandemic has further exposed and exacerbated long-standing inequities that stand in the way of MLs’ access to effective instruction. Recent events have also caused us to reflect on our place as educators within the intersection of race and language. In this innovative book, Sydney Snyder and Diane Staehr Fenner share practical, replicable ways you can draw from students’ strengths and promote multilingual learners′ success within and beyond your own classroom walls. In this book you’ll find • Practical and printable, research-based tools that guide you on how to implement culturally responsive teaching in your context • Case studies and reflection exercises to help identify implicit bias in your work and mitigate deficit-based thinking • Authentic classroom video clips in each chapter to show you what culturally responsive teaching actually looks like in practice • Hand-drawn sketch note graphics that spotlight key concepts, reinforce central themes, and engage you with eye-catching and memorable illustrations There is no time like the present for you to reflect on your role in culturally responsive teaching and use new tools to build an even stronger school community that is inclusive of MLs. No matter your role or where you are in your journey, you can confront injustice by taking action steps to develop a climate in which all students’ backgrounds, experiences, and cultures are honored and educators, families, and communities work collaboratively to help MLs thrive. We owe it to our students. On-demand book study-Available now! Authors, Snyder and Staehr Fenner have created an on-demand LMS book study for readers of Culturally Responsive Teaching for Multilingual Learners: Tools for Equity available now from their company SupportEd. The self-paced book study works around your schedule and when you′re done, you’ll earn a certificate for 20 hours of PD. SupportEd can also customize the book study for specific district timelines, cohorts and/or needs upon request.

Learning and Using Multiple Languages

2015
Learning and Using Multiple Languages

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  • Author: Pilar Safont Jordà
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 9781443871822
  • Category : Language and languages
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 344

This volume brings together the latest findings from research on multilingual language learning and use in multilingual communities. Suzanne Flynn, Hkan Ringbom and Larissa Aronin are some of the prestigious scholars who have contributed to this book. As argued by this last author in her chapter, although multilingualism has always existed, the important changes that research on this phenomenon has recently undergone, like that of adopting a multilingual perspective in its studies, should always be borne in mind. This volume considers the languages of multilingual communities, as well as the interaction among them. As such, the chapters adopt a multilingual approach that guides the analysis of grammatical, lexical and pragmatic development together with the role of affective and social factors in multilingual settings. Furthermore, this edited monograph is not restricted to an age group in the scope of its studies, as it contains research on children, teenagers, young adults and adults. In addition, it covers a wide range of sociolinguistic settings, including English-speaking countries, like the United Kingdom and Canada, and Northern and Central European contexts such as Sweden and Germany, as well as Southern settings like Spain and Tunisia. This book will be relevant to both researchers and teachers due to its educational and sociolinguistic orientation, dealing as it does with language learners from various multilingual communities and describing the social representation of languages and the measures for their promotion.

Early Biliteracy Development

2012-05-22
Early Biliteracy Development

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  • Author: Eurydice B. Bauer
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1136962123
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 210

A large and growing number of students from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds in the US and around the world have the potential to develop bilingualism and biliteracy if supported in their immediate environment. At the forefront in focusing exclusively on biliteracy development in early childhood across a variety of languages, this book provides both findings from empirical research with young bilinguals in home and school contexts and practical applications of these findings. Each chapter is structured in a similar format to offer parallel descriptions of the research, including a brief review of related empirical studies, an overview of the methods for data collection and analysis, a description of the main findings, and specific pedagogical implications to support educators’ efforts to construct meaningful, challenging, and dynamic literacy and language learning communities where one or more languages are used for communicating and learning. Pushing the field forward, this book is a valuable resource for helping literacy educators understand and respond to critical issues related to the development of young children’s literate competencies in two languages in home and school contexts.

Raising Multilingual Children

2017-03-29
Raising Multilingual Children

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  • Author: Julia Festman
  • Publisher: Multilingual Matters
  • ISBN: 1783097590
  • Category : Family & Relationships
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 112

Have you ever been told that raising your child to speak multiple languages will harm their development? Are teachers or other professionals suspicious of your efforts? Are you sometimes unsure if you are helping your child’s language development, or are you uncertain where to start? It is increasingly recognised among researchers that, far from harming a child’s development, being exposed to multiple languages from birth or early childhood can result in linguistic, creative and social advantages. The authors, all multilinguals themselves, parents of multilingual children, and researchers on language and multilingualism, aim to provide advice and inspiration for multilingual families across the world. The latest research on multilingualism and the authors’ own experiences are used to provide a friendly, accessible guide to raising and nurturing happy multilingual children.

A Multilingual Development Framework for Young Learners

2023-03-06
A Multilingual Development Framework for Young Learners

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  • Author: Barbara Hofer
  • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
  • ISBN: 311110771X
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 212

This book presents a new extended framework for the study of early multicompetence. It proposes a concept of multilingual competences as a valuable educational target, and a view of the multilingual learner as a competent language user. The thematic focus is on multilingual skill development in primary schoolers in the trilingual province of South Tyrol, northern Italy. A wide range of topics pertaining to multicompetence building and the special affordances of multilingual pedagogy are explored. Key concepts like language proficiency, native-speakerism, or monolingual classroom bias are subjected to critical analysis.

Teaching Languages to Young Learners

2001-03-15
Teaching Languages to Young Learners

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  • Author: Lynne Cameron
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 0521773253
  • Category : Foreign Language Study
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 16

This book will develop readers' understanding of children are being taught a foreign language.

On the Dynamics of Early Multilingualism

2015-07-01
On the Dynamics of Early Multilingualism

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  • Author: Barbara Hofer
  • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
  • ISBN: 1501500546
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 255

This book contributes to current issues in TLA and multilingualism research. It discusses multilingual learning and development from a Dynamic Systems Theory perspective. The author argues that trilingual education does not harm or confuse young learners but that the teaching of three languages from an early age carries positive implications for children's linguistic, metalinguistic, and crosslinguistic awareness.