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Multilingual Classroom Ecologies » (1st Edition)

Book cover image of Multilingual Classroom Ecologies by Angela Creese

Authors: Angela Creese, Peter W. Martin
ISBN-13: 9781853596957, ISBN-10: 1853596957
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Multilingual Matters Ltd.
Date Published: December 2003
Edition: 1st Edition

Author Biography: Angela Creese

Book Synopsis

This text contains nine papers presented in a colloquium at the Third International Symposium on Bilingualism held in Bristol, UK, in April 2001, exploring the complexities of multilingual classrooms; a tenth paper was added for this volume. Written by ten international scholars, the selections explore aspects of the interactions and interrelationships between teachers and learners, the underlying ideologies within the classroom or school contexts, and how discourses within and between the micro and macro levels of education are institutionally and societally reproduced. No subject index. Distributed by UTP Distribution. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

	Multilingual Classroom Ecologies: Inter-relationships, Interactions and Ideologies	1
	Legal Discourse and Decisions, Teacher Policymaking and the Multilingual Classroom: Constraining and Supporting Khmer/English Biliteracy in the United States	8
	Interactions and Inter-relationships Around Text: Practices and Positionings in a Multilingual Classroom in Brunei	25
	Talk Around Text: Literacy Practices, Cultural Identity and Authority in a Corsican Bilingual Classroom	42
	Language, Ethnicity and the Mediation of Allegations of Racism: Negotiating Diversity and Sameness in Multilingual School Discourses	61
	Constructing Discursive Practices in School and Community: Bilingualism, Gender and Power	77
	'Baro Afkaaga Hooyo!' A Case Study of Somali Literacy Teaching in Liverpool	93
	Bilingual Resources and 'Funds of Knowledge' for Teaching and Learning in Multi-ethnic Classrooms in Britain	107
	Foreign-born Teachers in the Multilingual Classroom in Sweden: The Role of Attitudes to Foreign Accent	123
	Afterword: Ecology and Ideology in Multilingual Classrooms	136