Authors: Jasone Cenoz (Editor), Fred Genesee
ISBN-13: 9781853594205, ISBN-10: 1853594202
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Channel View Publications Limited
Date Published: November 1998
Edition: New Edition
Colonialism, contemporary patterns of communication worldwide, the revival of minority languages and immigration have all increased the prevalence of individual multilingualism and multilingual education share certain characteristics will bilingualilsm and bilingual education, they present unique characteristics and promoting them presents unique challenges that have seldom been addressed. The chapters in the edited book provide theoretical, empirical and practical bases for planning and implementing multilingual-education programs that prepare students for a multilingual world. The authors address issues related to multilingual acquisition, the use of content insturction in multiple languages to promote multilingual acquisition, teacher education, and the role of culture in multilingual schools. In addition, case studies of multilingual schools from around the world illustrate not only the achievements of multilingual education but also the challenges it poses. This book should interest researchers working on bilingualism and multilingualism, teacher educators and teachers who work or plan to work in bi-multilingual programs and language policy makers.
Noting that multilingual education presents some characteristics and challenges different from bilingual programs, offers theoretical, empirical, and practical perspectives on planning and implementing programs to prepare students for a multilingual world. Addresses issues related to multilingual acquisition, the use of content instruction, teacher education, and the role of culture in multilingual schools. Also presents case studies from around the world that illustrate both the achievements possible and the hurdles that must be overcome. The information might be of interest to education researchers, to teachers and teacher educators working in or planning to work in programs, and to language policy makers. No index. Distributed by Taylor & Francis. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
Introduction | ||
The Contributors | ||
1 | A Global Perspective on Multilingualism and Multilingual Education | 3 |
2 | Psycholinguistic Perspectives on Multilingualism and Multilingual Education | 16 |
3 | Curriculum Decision-making in Content-based Language Teaching | 35 |
4 | Immersion Pedagogy and Implications for Language Teaching | 64 |
5 | Cultural Identities in Multilingual Classrooms | 96 |
6 | Teacher Education for Multilingual Contexts: Models and Issues | 117 |
7 | Luxembourg and the European Schools | 143 |
8 | Multilingual Education in the Basque Country | 175 |
9 | Teaching in Two or More Languages in the Philippine Context | 192 |
10 | Policy, Possibility and Paradox: Indigenous Multilingualism and Education in Peru and Bolivia | 206 |
11 | A Case Study of Multilingual Education in Canada | 243 |
12 | Eritrea: Developing a Programme of Multilingual Education | 259 |