Rethinking the Education of Multilingual Learners

Rethinking the Education of Multilingual Learners

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  • Author: Jim Cummins
  • Publisher: Multilingual Matters
  • ISBN: 1800413602
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 603

Over the past 40 years, Jim Cummins has proposed a number of highly influential theoretical concepts, including the threshold and interdependence hypotheses and the distinction between conversational fluency and academic language proficiency. In this book, he provides a personal account of how these ideas developed and he examines the credibility of critiques they have generated, using the criteria of empirical adequacy, logical coherence, and consequential validity. These criteria of theoretical legitimacy are also applied to the evaluation of two different versions of translanguaging theory – Unitary Translanguaging Theory and Crosslinguistic Translanguaging Theory – in a way that significantly clarifies this controversial concept.


Rethinking Bilingual Education in Postcolonial Contexts

Rethinking Bilingual Education in Postcolonial Contexts

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  • Author: Feliciano Chimbutane
  • Publisher: Multilingual Matters
  • ISBN: 1847695019
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 195

This book calls for critical adaptations when theories of bilingual education, based on practices in the North, are applied to the countries of the global South. For example, it challenges the assumption that transitional models necessarily lead to language shift and cultural assimilation. Taking an ethnographically-based narrative on the purpose and value of bilingual education in Mozambique as a starting point, it shows how, in certain contexts, even a transitional model may strengthen the vitality of local languages and associated cultures, instead of weakening them. The analysis is based on the view that communicative practices in the classroom influence and are influenced by institutional, local and societal processes. Within this framework, the book shows how education in low-status languages can play a role in social and cultural transformation, especially where post-colonial contexts are concerned.


Rethinking Bilingual Education

Rethinking Bilingual Education

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  • Author: Elizabeth Barbian
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 9781937730734
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 344

In this collection of articles, teachers bring students' home languages into their classrooms-from powerful bilingual social justice curriculum to strategies for honoring students' languages in schools that do not have bilingual programs. Bilingual educators and advocates share how they work to keep equity at the center and build solidarity between diverse communities. Teachers and students speak to the tragedy of languages loss, but also about inspiring work to defend and expand bilingual programs. Book jacket.


Rethinking Languages Education

Rethinking Languages Education

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  • Author: Ruth Arber
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1351608681
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 252

Rethinking Languages Education assembles innovative research from experts in the fields of sociocultural theory, applied linguistics and education. The contributors interrogate innovative and recent thinking and broach controversies about the theoretical and practical considerations that underpin the implementation of effective Languages pedagogy in twenty-first-century classrooms. Crucially, Rethinking Languages Education explores established understandings about language, culture and education to provide a more comprehensive and flexible understanding of Languages education that responds to local classrooms impacted by global and transnational change, and the politics of language, culture and identity. Rethinking Languages Education focuses on questions about ways that we can develop farsighted and successful Languages education for diverse students in globalised contexts. The response to these questions is multi-layered, and takes into account the complex interactions between policy, curriculum and practice, as well as their contention and implementation. In doing so, this book addresses and integrates innovative perspectives of contemporary theory and pedagogy for Languages, TESOL and EAL/D education. It includes diverse discussions around practice, and addresses issues of the dominance of prestige Languages programs for ‘minority’ and ‘heritage’ languages, as well as discussing controversies about the current provision of English and Languages programs around the world.


Deaf Education and Challenges for Bilingual/Multilingual Students

Deaf Education and Challenges for Bilingual/Multilingual Students

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  • Author: Musyoka, Millicent Malinda
  • Publisher: IGI Global
  • ISBN: 1799881830
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 407

Biliteracy, or the development of reading, writing, speaking, listening, and thinking competencies in more than one language, is a complex and dynamic process. The process is even more challenging when the languages used in the literacy process differ in modality. Biliteracy development among deaf students involves the use of visual languages (i.e., sign languages) and auditory languages (spoken languages). Deaf students' sign language proficiency is strongly related to their literacy abilities. The distinction between bilingualism and multilingualism is critical to our understanding of the underserved, the linguistic deficit, and the underachievement of deaf and hard of hearing (D/HH) immigrant students, thus bringing the multilingual and immigrant aspect into the research on deaf education. Multilingual and immigrant students may face unique challenges in the course of their education. Hence, in the education of D/HH students, the intersection of issues such as biculturalism/multiculturalism, bilingualism/multilingualism, and immigration can create a dilemma for teachers and other stakeholders working with them. Deaf Education and Challenges for Bilingual/Multilingual Students is an essential reference book that provides knowledge, skills, and dispositions for teaching multicultural, multilingual, and immigrant deaf and hard of hearing students globally and identifies the challenges facing the inclusion needs of this population. This book fills a current gap in educational resources for teaching immigrant, multilingual, and multicultural deaf students in learning institutions all over the world. Covering topics such as universal design for learning, inclusion, literacy, and language acquisition, this text is crucial for classroom teachers of deaf or hard of hearing students, faculty in deaf education programs, language instructors, students, pre-service teachers, researchers, and academicians.


Migration, Multilingualism and Education

Migration, Multilingualism and Education

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  • Author: Latisha Mary
  • Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited
  • ISBN: 9781800412972
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages :

This book explores the question of how equitable and inclusive education can be implemented in heterogeneous classes where learners' languages and cultures reflect the social reality of mass migration and everyday plurilingualism. The book brings together researchers and practitioners working in inclusive teaching and learning in a variety of migration contexts from pre-school to university. The book opens with an exploration of the relationship between language ideologies and policies with respect to the inclusion of learners for whom the language of education is not the language spoken in the home. The following section focuses on innovative pedagogical practices which allow migrants to be socially, culturally and institutionally included at school and at university while using their plurilingual competences as resources for learning/teaching and allowing them to fully realise their potential.


Language, Power and Pedagogy

Language, Power and Pedagogy

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  • Author: Jim Cummins
  • Publisher: Multilingual Matters
  • ISBN: 1853594741
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 318

Population mobility is at an all-time high in human history. One result of this unprecedented movement of peoples around the world is that in many school systems monolingual and monocultural students are the exception rather than the rule, particularly in urban areas. This shift in demographic realities entails enormous challenges for educators and policy-makers. What do teachers need to know in order to teach effectively in linguistically and culturally diverse contexts? How long does it take second language learners to acquire proficiency in the language of school instruction? What are the differences between attaining conversational fluency in everyday contexts and developing proficiency in the language registers required for academic success? What adjustments do we need to make in curriculum, instruction and assessment to ensure that second-language learners understand what is being taught and are assessed in a fair and equitable manner? How long do we need to wait before including second-language learners in high-stakes national examinations and assessments? What role (if any) should be accorded students’ first language in the curriculum? Do bilingual education programs work well for poor children from minority-language backgrounds or should they be reserved only for middle-class children from the majority or dominant group? In addressing these issues, this volume focuses not only on issues of language learning and teaching but also highlights the ways in which power relations in the wider society affect patterns of teacher–student interaction in the classroom. Effective instruction will inevitably challenge patterns of coercive power relations in both school and society.


Negotiating Identities

Negotiating Identities

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  • Author: Jim Cummins
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Children of minorities
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 312

Aimed at "empowering" teachers and students in a culturally diverse society, this book suggests that schools must respect student's language and culture, encourage community participation, promote critical literacy, and institute forms of assessment in order to reverse patterns of under-achievement in pupils from varying cultures. The book shows that students who have been failed by schools predominantly come from communities whose languages, cultures and identities have been distorted and devalued in the wider society, and schools have reinforced this pattern of disempowerment.


Bilingual Education

Bilingual Education

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  • Author: Ofelia García
  • Publisher: Multilingual Matters
  • ISBN: 1853599077
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 312

The book contains a comprehensive selection of outstanding and influential articles on bilingual education in the USA and the rest of the world. It is designed for instructors and students, with questions and activities based on each of the 19 readings for students to engage in active learning.


Multilingual and Multicultural Perspectives on Higher Education and Implications for Teaching

Multilingual and Multicultural Perspectives on Higher Education and Implications for Teaching

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  • Author: Sviatlana Karpava
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 9781799888895
  • Category : Education, Higher
  • Languages : en
  • Pages :

"Embracing the contemporary reality of multilingualism, multiculturalism and internationalization of higher education , this book aims to increase the awareness about their benefits in building inclusive teaching, learning and assessment and collaboration worldwide"--