Opportunities and Constraints of Community Language Teaching

Erscheinungsjahr 1992
ISBN: 978-1-85359-164-8
Verlag: Channel View Publications - IPSUK

Buch, Englisch, 152 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 262 g

Reihe: Multilingual Matters

Since 1976 the Commission of the European Communities, as part of its education action programme, has supported a number of pilot projects regarding the education of migrant workers' children in EC member states. This book presents the results of a case study that, as part of the European Communities Comparative Evaluation Project (ECCE Intercultural), was conducted on one of these pilot projects, the EC Pilot Project 'Community Languages in the Secondary Curriculum', which was carried out in London, Birmingham and Nottingham from 1984 to 1987. The case study consists of four parts. First of all, an analysis is given of the project's paperwork. This document analysis is followed by an account of semi-structured interviews with some of the project's key persons. A third activity has been the observation of community language classrooms in Italian, Urdu, Panjabi and Bengali together with observations of the position of community languages across the curriculum. A fourth and final activity has been a mail survey among community language teachers who were involved in the pilot project. Using the results of these four different data-gathering strategies, the book strongly argues for giving minority languages a more stable place in the curriculum and, as a consequence, for making schools more intercultural and more aware of multilingualism and linguistic diversity as positive starting points for teaching and learning.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kroon, Sjaak

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Fremdsprachenerwerb und -didaktik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. Introducing the Project and its Evaluation

Chapter 2. The Project's Paperwork

Chapter 3. Participants' Positions and Perceptions

Chapter 4. Observations in Community Language Classrooms

Chapter 5. Community Languages Across the Curriculum

Chapter 6. The Teachers’ Survey

Chapter 7. Conclusion and Evaluation

Über Autor(innen)

Kroon, Sjaak
Sjaak Kroon is Emeritus Professor of Multilingualism in the Multicultural Society at the Department of Culture Studies of Tilburg University, The Netherlands. His main research interests and publications are in the field of linguistic and cultural diversity, language policy, and language education in the context of globalization and superdiversity.

Sjaak Kroon is a member of the Tilburg University Faculty of Arts Department of Language and Minorities. His main research interests are in the field of language variation and change, and language teaching in multi-ethnic, multicultural and multilingual societies. He has been involved in research projects in dialect and education, the teaching of Dutch, multicultural language teaching, and language maintenance and loss in ethnic minority groups. He has published a number of articles in the field of sociolinguistics and educational linguistics and is a co-editor of Ethnic Minority Languages and Education (Swats & Zeitlinger, 1991), Kultur- and Sprachenvielfalt in Europa (Waxmann, 1991), and Maintenance and Loss of Minority Languages (John Benjamins, 1992).