Language Policy for the Multilingual Classroom

Pedagogy of the Possible
Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-1-84769-367-9
Verlag: Channel View Publications - IPSUK

Buch, Englisch, 209 Seiten, Format (B × H): 149 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 420 g

Reihe: Multilingual Matters

With contributions from leading scholars all around the world, this volume underlines the ever-pressing need for new language in education policies to include all learners’ voices in the multilingual classroom and to empower teachers to develop responsive and transformative pedagogies. Using testimonies, narratives and examples from different international contexts, this book points clearly to what can be achieved practically in the multilingual classroom so that multilingual learners’ voices are legitimated, while also addressing the complex inter-relating sociolinguistic issues around the promotion of bilingualism and multilingualism in education.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hélot, Christine

Ó Laoire, Muiris

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungssystem Bildungspolitik, Bildungsreform
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Mehrsprachigkeit
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Fremdsprachenerwerb und -didaktik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART 1. THE ECOLOGY OF THE MULTILINGUAL CLASSROOM: FROM COMPLEXITY TO PEDAGOGY

1A Perspectives on the learners

Angela Creese and Adrian Blackledge: Ideologies and Interactions in Multilingual Education: What can an Ecological Approach Tell us about Bilingual Pedagogy?

Carola Mick: Heteroglossia in a Multilingual Learning Space: Approaching Language beyond “Lingualisms”

Christine Hélot: Children’s Literature in the Multilingual Classroom: Developing multilingual literacy acquisition

Anne Marie De Mejía: Multilingualism and Pedagogical Practices in Colombia’s Caribbean Archipelago

1B: Perspectives on the teachers

Kate Menken, Alexander Funk and Tatyana Kleyn: Teachers at the Epicenter: Engagement and Resistance in a Biliteracy Program for “Long-Term English Language Learners” in the U.S.

Bernadette O’ Rourke: Negotiating Multilingualism in an Irish Primary School Context Pierrot Ngomo: Exploring New Pedagogical Approaches in the Context of Multilingual Cameroon

PART II: DECONSTRUCTING THE MYTH OF MONOLINGUALISM Perspectives on Identities, Ideologies and Politics

Ute Walker: Linguistic Diversity as a Bridge to Adjustment: Making the Case for Bi/multilingualism as a Settlement Outcome in New Zealand

Michael Clyne: Three is too many in Australia: Questioning the Monolingual Mindset

Zvi Bekerman: Integrated Bilingual Education: Ethnographic Case Studies from the Palestinian-Jewish ‘Front’

Über Autor(innen)

Hélot, Christine
Christine Hélot is emeritus professor of English at the University of Strasbourg, France. As a sociolinguist, her research focuses on language in education policies in France and in Europe, bi-multilingual education, intercultural education, language awareness, early childhood education, and children’s literature and multiliteracy. In 1988 she obtained her PhD from Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland) for a thesis on bilingualism in the family and in 2005 she was awarded an Habilitation (University of Strasbourg) for her research on bi/plurilingualism at school. Dr Hélot was a lecturer at the University of Ireland before returning to France and since then has been a guest professor in Spain, Germany, Japan, and the USA. She has published widely in French and English, and co-edited several volumes on bilingual and multilingual education. Her research on critical language awareness was the subject of a documentary film entitled "Raconte-moi ta langue/Tell me how you talk": https://vimeo.com/402284515

Ó Laoire, Muiris
Muiris Ó Laoire is Professor in the School of Health and Social Sciences at Munster Technological University, Ireland. He is author of several articles, chapters and books on language revitalisation, language teaching, language policy and multilingualism. He is currently providing professional development in content and language integrated learning (CLIL) to the Department (Ministry) of Education and to the European Schools Inspectorate. He was on the organising committee of the first international conference on immersion education in Ireland in 2015 and co-edited the conference proceedings with T.J. Ó Ceallaigh in 2015 and 2021.

Christine Hélot is a professor of English and teacher educator at the University of Strasbourg in France. She holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics from Trinity College (Dublin). She has published several books and numerous articles both in French and English on bilingualism and bilingual education, language education policies, language awareness and intercultural education.

Muiris Ó Laoire is a Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Technology, Tralee, Ireland. A graduate of the National University of Ireland, he is author of books, textbooks and several articles and chapters on multilingualism, bilingualism language policy and pedagogy.