Bilingualism and Language Pedagogy

Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-1-85359-755-8
Verlag: Multilingual Matters

Buch, Englisch, 152 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 399 g

Bilingualism and Language Pedagogy brings an understanding of language as a social practice, and bilingualism as the study of bidirectional transitioning, to the examination of bilingual settings in the US, Europe and developing countries. The volume suggests that language pedagogy needs to reflect new understandings of bilinguals. Focusing both on bilingual linguistic competence and educational politics and practice, the chapters provide valuable practical proposals and models for developing sociocultural and linguistic competencies among bilingual practitioners and students. The volume situates teachers as mediators and explores the key roles that they have as language and content educators. In discussing the experiences of learners, it takes up the linguistic competence of bilinguals, highlighting how their language use constitutes a resource for meeting the demands of social interactions, and foregrounds the significance of developing academic language proficiency in English among minority children to decrease the barriers facing them in residential and academic settings.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brutt-Griffler, Janina

Varghese, Manka

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Fremdsprachenerwerb und -didaktik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Mehrsprachigkeit

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Janina Brutt-Griffler and Manka Varghese: Introduction

Guadalupe Valdés: Between Support and Marginalisation: The Development of Academic Language in Linguistic Minority Children

Almeida Jacqueline Toribio: Spanish/English Speech Practices: Bringing Chaos to Order

Nancy H. Hornberger: The Continua of Biliteracy and the Bilingual Educator: Educational Linguistics in Practice

Brian Morgan: Teacher Identity as Pedagogy: Towards a Field-Internal Conceptualisation in Bilingual and Second Language Education

Angela Creese: Bilingual Teachers in Mainstream Secondary School Classrooms: Using Turkish for Curriculum Learning

Carol Benson: Do We Expect Too Much of Bilingual Teachers? Bilingual Teaching in Developing Countries

Manka Varghese: Professional Development for Bilingual Teachers in the United States: A Site for Articulating and Contesting Professional Roles

Über Autor(innen)

Varghese, Manka
Manka Varghese is a Professor in Language, Literacy, and Culture and Chair in Teaching, Learning, and Curriculum at the University of Washington’s College of Education. Her research, teaching, and mentoring revolve around developing anti-oppressive frameworks and pedagogies in language teacher education, especially for teachers of multilingual students, which integrate teacher and student intersectional subjectivities and identities, theoretically and practically. Varghese has published widely on examining these intersections in journals such as Educational Researcher, Teachers College Record, and TESOL Quarterly as well as chapters in edited books and has co-edited a number of edited books.

Brutt-Griffler, Janina
Janina Brutt-Griffler, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the English Department at the University of Alabama. Her research areas include world English, applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, second language acquisition and second language writing. Her work has appeared in major English studies journals.

Janina Brutt-Griffler is on the graduate faculty at the University of York, where she directs the MA programme in TESOL. She is the author of World English: A Study of its Development and has published extensively in several journals. Her scholarship bridges the fields of English studies, second language acquisition, language policy and bilingualism.

Manka M. Varghese is currently Assistant Professor in the College of Education at the University of Washington. She received her PhD in Educational Linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania in 2000. Her area of specialisation is language teacher education and identity.