Beyond Bilingualism

Multilingualism and Multilingual Education
Erscheinungsjahr 1998
ISBN: 978-1-85359-420-5
Verlag: Multilingual Matters

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 404 g

Colonialism, contemporary patterns of communication worldwide, the revival of minority languages and immigration have all increased the prevalence of individual multilingualism and the need for individuals to have multilingual proficiency. While multilingualism and multilingual education share certain characteristics with bilingualism and bilingual education, they present unique characteristics, and promoting them presents unique challenges that have seldom been addressed. The chapters in this edited book provide theoretical, empirical and practical bases for planning and implementing multilingual education programmes that prepare students for a multilingual world. The authors address issues related to multilingual acquisition, the use of content instruction 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 programmes and language policy makers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cenoz, Jasone

Genesee, Fred

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Mehrsprachigkeit

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Jasone Cenoz and Fred Genesee: Introduction

The Contributors

Part 1: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Multilingual Education

1. G. Richard Tucker: A Global Perspective on Multilingualism and Multilingual Education

2. Jasone Cenoz and Fred Genesee: Psycholinguistic Perspectives on Multilingualism and Multilingual Education

Part 2: Educating Towards Multilingualism

3. Myriam Met: Curriculum Decision-making in Content-based Language Teaching

4. Roy Lyster: Immersion Pedagogy and Implications for Language Teaching

5. Michael Bryam: Cultural Identities in Multilingual Classrooms

6. David Nunan and Agnes Lam: Teacher Education for Multilingual Contexts: Models and Issues

Part 3: Case Studies in Multilingual Education

7. Charlotte Hoffman: Luxembourg and the European Schools

8. Jasone Cenoz: Multilingual Education in the Basque Country

9. Andrew Gonzalez, FSC: Teaching in Two or More Languages in the Philippine Context

10. Nancy H. Hornberger and Luis Enrique López: Policy, Possibility and Paradox: Indigenous Multilingualism and Education in Peru and Bolivia

11. Fred Genesee: A Case Study of Multilingual Education in Canada

12. Nadine Dutcher: Eritrea: Developing a Programme of Multilingual Education

Über Autor(innen)

Cenoz, Jasone
Jasone Cenoz is Professor of Research Methods in Education at the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Spain, and a member of the advisory committee of the Organization of Ibero-American States (OEI). Her research focuses on multilingual education, bilingualism and multilingualism. She has published extensively and has presented her work at numerous international conferences and seminars.

Genesee, Fred
Fred Genesee is Professor Emeritus in the Psychology Department at McGill University, Montreal. He has conducted extensive research on alternative forms of bilingual/immersion education for language minority and language majority students; the academic development of at-risk students in bilingual programmes; and language acquisition in typically-developing and at-risk pre-school bilingual children and internationally-adopted children. He is the recipient of the Canadian Psychology Association Gold Medal Award, Paul Pimsler Award for Research in Foreign Language Education, Canadian Psychological Association Award for Distinguished Contributions to Community or Public Service, California Association for Bilingual Education Award for Promoting Bilingualism and the Le Prix Adrien-Pinard.

Jasone Cenoz is Associate Professor of English Linguistics at the University of the Basque Country (Spain) where she teaches linguistics and psycholinguistics. Her publications are in the fields of second language acquisition, bilingualism, multilingualism and inter-language pragmatics. She is currently conducting a research project on the acquisition of English as a third language by Basque-Spanish bilingual children.

Fred Genesee is a Professor at McGill University and has conducted extensive research on alternative forms of bilingual and immersion education. He is the author of Learning Through Two Languages: Studies of Immersion and Bilingual Education; Educating Second Language Children and Classroom-based Evaluation in Second Language Education (with J. Upshur). He is currently co-authoring a teachers' guide on enriched language and cultural education with Else Hamayan and Nancy Cloud.